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proverbs 4

1 - Listen, sons, to a father's instruction.Pay attention and know understanding;
2 - for I give you sound learning.Don't forsake my law.
3 - For I was a son to my father,tender and an only child in the sight of my mother.
4 - He taught me, and said to me:"Let your heart retain my words.Keep my commandments, and live.
5 - Get wisdom.Get understanding.Don't forget, neither swerve from the words of my mouth.
6 - Don't forsake her, and she will preserve you.Love her, and she will keep you.
7 - Wisdom is supreme.Get wisdom.Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding.
8 - Esteem her, and she will exalt you.She will bring you to honor, when you embrace her.
9 - She will give to your head a garland of grace.She will deliver a crown of splendor to you."
10 - Listen, my son, and receive my sayings.The years of your life will be many.
11 - I have taught you in the way of wisdom.I have led you in straight paths.
12 - When you go, your steps will not be hampered.When you run, you will not stumble.
13 - Take firm hold of instruction.Don't let her go.Keep her, for she is your life.
14 - Don't enter into the path of the wicked.Don't walk in the way of evil men.
15 - Avoid it, and don't pass by it.Turn from it, and pass on.
16 - For they don't sleep, unless they do evil.Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.
17 - For they eat the bread of wickedness,and drink the wine of violence.
18 - But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light,that shines more and more until the perfect day.
19 - The way of the wicked is like darkness.They don't know what they stumble over.
20 - My son, attend to my words.Turn your ear to my sayings.
21 - Let them not depart from your eyes.Keep them in the center of your heart.
22 - For they are life to those who find them,and health to their whole body.
23 - Keep your heart with all diligence,for out of it is the wellspring of life.
24 - Put away from yourself a perverse mouth.Put corrupt lips far from you.
25 - Let your eyes look straight ahead.Fix your gaze directly before you.
26 - Make the path of your feet level.Let all of your ways be established.
27 - Don't turn to the right hand nor to the left.Remove your foot from evil.

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