Jubilee2000 - Proverbs - 4

4:1  Hearken, ye sons, [unto] the chastening of the father, and pay attention that ye might know understanding.

4:2  For I give you good doctrine; do not forsake my law.

4:3  For I was my father's son, tender and unique in the sight of my mother.

4:4  He taught me and said unto me, Sustain thine heart with 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  Grow in [wisdom], and she shall promote thee; she shall bring thee to honour when thou hast embraced her.

4:9  She shall give to thine head an increase of grace; a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.

4:10  Hear, O my son, and receive my words, and the years of thy life shall be multiplied.

4:11  I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have caused thee to walk in right paths.

4:12  When thou goest [in these paths], thy steps shall not be hindered; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.

4:13  Take fast hold of chastening; do not let go; keep this; for it [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 do not sleep, unless they have done evil; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause [someone] 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 light of the [morning] star, that shines more and more until the day is perfect.

4:19  The way of the wicked [is] as darkness; they do not know in what they stumble.

4:20  My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my words.

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 medicine to all their flesh.

4:23  Above all else, guard thy heart; for out of it flows the [issues of] life.

4:24  Put away from thee the perversion of the mouth, and the deviation of the lips put far from thee.

4:25  Let thine eyes look upon that which is right, and let thine eyelids straighten [thy path] 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.: