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| 4:1 |
Listen, children, to a father's instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight;
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| 4:2 |
for I give you good precepts: do not forsake my teaching.
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| 4:3 |
When I was a son with my father, tender, and my mother's favorite,
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| 4:4 |
he taught me, and said to me, "Let your heart hold fast my words; keep my commandments, and live.
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| 4:5 |
Get wisdom; get insight: do not forget, nor turn away from the words of my mouth.
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| 4:6 |
Do not forsake her, and she will keep you; love her, and she will guard you.
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| 4:7 |
The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom, and whatever else you get, get insight.
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| 4:8 |
Prize her highly, and she will exalt you; she will honor you if you embrace her.
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| 4:9 |
She will place on your head a fair garland; she will bestow on you a beautiful crown."
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| 4:10 |
Hear, my child, and accept my words, that the years of your life may be many.
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| 4:11 |
I have taught you the way of wisdom; I have led you in the paths of uprightness.
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| 4:12 |
When you walk, your step will not be hampered; and if you run, you will not stumble.
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| 4:13 |
Keep hold of instruction; do not let go; guard her, for she is your life.
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| 4:14 |
Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not walk in the way of evildoers.
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| 4:15 |
Avoid it; do not go on it; turn away from it and pass on.
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| 4:16 |
For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong; they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble.
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| 4:17 |
For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.
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| 4:18 |
But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day.
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| 4:19 |
The way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know what they stumble over.
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| 4:20 |
My child, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.
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| 4:21 |
Do not let them escape from your sight; keep them within your heart.
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| 4:22 |
For they are life to those who find them, and healing to all their flesh.
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| 4:23 |
Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.
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| 4:24 |
Put away from you crooked speech, and put devious talk far from you.
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| 4:25 |
Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you.
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| 4:26 |
Keep straight the path of your feet, and all your ways will be sure.
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| 4:27 |
Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your foot away from evil.
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