Geneva1599 - Proverbs - 4

4:1  Heare, O ye children, the instruction of a father, and giue eare to learne vnderstanding.

4:2  For I doe giue you a good doctrine: therefore forsake yee not my lawe.

4:3  For I was my fathers sonne, tender and deare in the sight of my mother,

4:4  When he taught me, and sayde vnto me, Let thine heart holde fast my woordes: keepe my commandements, and thou shalt liue.

4:5  Get wisedom: get vnderstading: forget not, neither decline from the woordes of my mouth.

4:6  Forsake her not, and shee shall keepe thee: loue her and shee shall preserue thee.

4:7  Wisedome is the beginning: get wisedome therefore: and aboue all thy possession get vnderstanding.

4:8  Exalt her, and she shall exalt thee: she shall bring thee to honour, if thou embrace her.

4:9  She shall giue a comely ornamet vnto thine head, yea, she shall giue thee a crowne of glorie.

4:10  Heare, my sonne, and receiue my wordes, and the yeeres of thy life shalbe many.

4:11  I haue taught thee in ye way of wisedom, and led thee in the pathes of righteousnesse.

4:12  Whe thou goest, thy gate shall not be strait, and when thou runnest, thou shalt not fall.

4:13  Take holde of instruction, and leaue not: keepe her, for shee is thy life.

4:14  Enter not into the way of the wicked, and walke not in the way of euill men.

4:15  Auoide it, and goe not by it: turne from it, and passe by.

4:16  For they can not sleepe, except they haue done euill, and their sleepe departeth except they cause some to fall.

4:17  For they eate the breade of wickednesse, and drinke the wine of violence.

4:18  But the way of the righteous shineth as the light, that shineth more and more vnto the perfite day.

4:19  The way of the wicked is as the darkenes: they knowe not wherein they shall fall.

4:20  My sonne, hearken vnto my wordes, incline thine eare vnto my sayings.

4:21  Let them not depart from thine eyes, but keepe them in the middes of thine heart.

4:22  For they are life vnto those that find them, and health vnto all their flesh.

4:23  Keepe thine heart with all diligence: for thereout commeth life.

4:24  Put away from thee a froward mouth, and put wicked lippes farre from thee.

4:25  Let thine eyes beholde the right, and let thine eyelids direct thy way before thee.

4:26  Ponder the path of thy feete, and let all thy waies be ordred aright.

4:27  Turne not to the right hande, nor to the left, but remooue thy foote from euill.