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CHAPTER 4
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
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For I give you
good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.
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For I was my father’s son, tender and only
beloved
in the
sight of my mother.
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He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep
my commandments, and live.
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Get wisdom, get understanding: forget
it
not; neither decline from
the words of my mouth.
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Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep
thee.
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Wisdom
is
the principal thing;
therefore
get wisdom: and with all thy getting get
understanding.
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Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou
dost embrace her.
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She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she
deliver to thee.
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Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.
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I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths.
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When thou goest, thy
steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.
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Take fast hold of
instruction; let
her
not go: keep her; for she
is
thy life.
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Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil
men.
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Avoid it, pass not
by it, turn from it, and pass away.
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For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their
sleep is taken away, unless they cause
some
to fall.
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For they eat the bread of wickedness, and
drink the wine of violence.
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But the path of the just
is
as the shining light, that shineth more and
more unto the perfect day.
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The way of the wicked
is
as darkness: they know not at what they
stumble.
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My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.
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Let them not depart from
thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.
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For they
are
life unto those that find them, and
health to all their flesh.
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Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it
are
the issues of life.
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Put away from thee a
froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
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Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine
eyelids look straight before thee.
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Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.
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Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.
CHAPTER 5
My son, attend unto my wisdom,
and
bow thine ear to my understanding:
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That thou mayest regard
discretion, and
that
thy lips may keep knowledge.
3
For the lips of a strange woman drop
as
an honeycomb, and her mouth
is
smoother than oil:
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But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
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Her feet go down to death; her
steps take hold on hell.
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Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable,
that
thou canst not know
them.
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Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words
of my mouth.
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Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
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Lest thou
give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
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Lest strangers be filled with thy
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