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| 4:1 | Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding. |
| 4:2 | For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law. |
| 4:3 | For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother. |
| 4:4 | He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live. |
| 4:5 | Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth. |
| 4:6 | Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee. |
| 4:7 | Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. |
| 4:8 | Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her. |
| 4:9 | She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee. |
| 4:10 | Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many. |
| 4:11 | I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths. |
| 4:12 | When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble. |
| 4:13 | Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life. |
| 4:14 | Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. |
| 4:15 | Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away. |
| 4:16 | For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall. |
| 4:17 | For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence. |
| 4:18 | But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. |
| 4:19 | The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble. |
| 4:20 | My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. |
| 4:21 | Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. |
| 4:22 | For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh. |
| 4:23 | Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. |
| 4:24 | Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee. |
| 4:25 | Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee. |
| 4:26 | Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established. |
| 4:27 | Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil. |
| 4:1 | Heare, O ye chyldren, the fatherly exhortacyon, and take good heade, that ye maye lerne wysdome. |
| 4:2 | For I haue geuen you a good doctryne, forsake nott ye my lawe. |
| 4:3 | For when I my selfe was my fathers deare sonne, and tenderly beloued of my mother: |
| 4:4 | he taught me also, and sayde vnto me: Lett thyne herte receaue my wordes, kepe my commaundementes, and thou shalt lyue. |
| 4:5 | Get the wysdome: and get the vnderstanding: forget not the wordes of my mouth, and shrynke not from them. |
| 4:6 | Forsake her not and she shall preserue the: loue her, and she shall kepe the. |
| 4:7 | The chefe poynte of wysdome is, that thou be wyllynge to optayne wysedome: and before all thy goodes to gett the vnderstandynge. |
| 4:8 | Make moche of her and she shall promote the: Yee, yf thou embrace her, she shall brynge the vnto honoure. |
| 4:9 | She shall make the a gracyous heed, and garnysshe the with a crowne of glory. |
| 4:10 | Heare my sonne, and receaue my wordes and the yeares of thy lyfe shall be many. |
| 4:11 | I haue shewed the, the waye of wysdome, and ledd the into the ryght pathes. |
| 4:12 | So that yf thou goest therin, there shall no straytenes hynder the: and when thou runnest, thou shalte not fall. |
| 4:13 | Take fast holde of doctryne, and let her nott go: kepe her, for she is thy lyfe. |
| 4:14 | Come nott in the pathe of the vngodly: and walke nott in the waye of the wycked. |
| 4:15 | Abhorre it, and go not therin: departe asyde, and passe ouer by it. |
| 4:16 | For they cannot slepe, excepte they haue fyrst done some myschefe: nether take they anye reste, excepte they haue fyrst done some harme. |
| 4:17 | For they eate the breade of wyckednesse, and dryncke the wyne of robberye. |
| 4:18 | The pathe of the ryghtewes shyneth as the lyght, that is euer brighter and brighter vnto the perfect daye. |
| 4:19 | But the waye of the vngodly is as the darcknesse: they knowe nott where they fall. |
| 4:20 | My sonne, marcke my wordes, and enclyne thyne eare vnto my sayinges. |
| 4:21 | Let them not departe from thyne eyes: but kepe them euen in the myddest of thyne herte. |
| 4:22 | For they are lyfe vnto all those that fynde them, and health vnto all theyr bodyes. |
| 4:23 | Kepe thyne herte with all diligence, for there vpon hangeth lyfe. |
| 4:24 | Put awaye from the a frowarde mouth, & let the lyppes of sclaunder be farre from the. |
| 4:25 | Let thyne eyes beholde the thyng that is ryght, and let thyne eye lyddes loke strayght before the. |
| 4:26 | Pondre the path of thy fete, and let all thy wayes be ordred a ryght. |
| 4:27 | Turne not asyde, nether to the ryght hande net to the lefte, but witholde thy fote from euell. |
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