LITV - Proverbs - 4

4:1  Sons, hear the instruction of a father, and listen so as to know understanding.

4:2  For I give you good teaching, do not forsake my law.

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

4:4  And he taught me and said to me, Let your heart cling to my words; keep my commands and live.

4:5  Get wisdom, get understanding; do not forsake and do not turn away from the words of my mouth.

4:6  Do not forsake her, and she will preserve you; love her, and she will keep you.

4:7  Wisdom is the main thing; get wisdom, and with all your getting, get understanding.

4:8  Exalt her, and she will lift you up; she shall bring you to honor when you embrace her.

4:9  She shall give a wreath of grace to your head; she shall shield you with a crown of glory.

4:10  Oh my son, hear and receive my sayings, and the years of your life shall be many.

4:11  I have taught you in the way of wisdom; I have led you in the right tracks;

4:12  when you go, your tracks shall not be narrowed, and when you run, you shall not stumble.

4:13  Take fast hold of instruction, do not let her go; keep her, for she is your life.

4:14  Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not go in the way of evildoers.

4:15  Avoid it, do not pass by it; turn from it and pass on.

4:16  For they do not sleep if they have done no evil, and their sleep is taken away unless they cause some 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 a bright light going on and shining till the day is established.

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

4:20  My son, listen to my words; bow your ear to what I say;

4:21  let them not depart from your eyes; keep them in the center of your heart;

4:22  for they are life to those who find them, and healing to all his flesh.

4:23  Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life.

4:24  Turn away from you the crooked mouth, and put perverse lips far from you.

4:25  Let your eyes look straight ahead, and let your eyelids look straight before you.

4:26  Study the track of your feet, then all your ways will be established.

4:27  Do not turn to the right hand or to the left; turn your foot aside from evil.