Proverbs 4
1 Hear, ye sons, the correction of a father, and attend, that ye may know understanding.
Heare, O ye children, the instruction of a father, and giue eare to learne vnderstanding.
2 For, good teaching, have I given you, mine instruction, do not ye forsake.
For I doe giue you a good doctrine: therefore forsake yee not my lawe.
3 For, a son, became I to my father, tender and most precious in the sight of my mother.
For I was my fathers sonne, tender and deare in the sight of my mother,
4 So he taught me, and said to me—Let thy heart, lay hold of my words, Keep my commandments and live!
When he taught me, and sayde vnto me, Let thine heart holde fast my woordes: keepe my commandements, and thou shalt liue.
5 Acquire wisdom, acquire understanding, Do not forget, neither decline thou from the sayings of my mouth.
Get wisedom: get vnderstading: forget not, neither decline from the woordes of my mouth.
6 Do not forsake her, and she will guard thee, —love her and she will keep thee.
Forsake her not, and shee shall keepe thee: loue her and shee shall preserue thee.
7 The principal thing, is wisdom, acquire thou wisdom, With all thine acquisition, acquire thou understanding.
Wisedome is the beginning: get wisedome therefore: and aboue all thy possession get vnderstanding.
8 Exalt her, and she will set thee on high, she will bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her:
Exalt her, and she shall exalt thee: she shall bring thee to honour, if thou embrace her.
9 She will give for thy head, a wreath of beauty, A crown of adorning, will she bestow upon thee.
She shall giue a comely ornamet vnto thine head, yea, she shall giue thee a crowne of glorie.
10 Hear, my son, and receive my sayings, and they will multiply to thee the years of life.
Heare, my sonne, and receiue my wordes, and the yeeres of thy life shalbe many.
11 In the way of wisdom, have I taught thee, I have guided thee in tracks of uprightness.
I haue taught thee in ye way of wisedom, and led thee in the pathes of righteousnesse.
12 When thou walkest, thy step shall not be hemmed in, and, if thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.
Whe thou goest, thy gate shall not be strait, and when thou runnest, thou shalt not fall.
13 Take fast hold of correction, let her not go, —keep her, for, she, is thy life.
Take holde of instruction, and leaue not: keepe her, for shee is thy life.
14 Upon the path of the lawless, do not thou enter, and do not advance in the way of the wicked:
Enter not into the way of the wicked, and walke not in the way of euill men.
15 Avoid it, do not pass thereon—turn from it, and depart.
Auoide it, and goe not by it: turne from it, and passe by.
16 For they sleep not, unless they can do mischief, —They rob themselves of their sleep, if they cannot cause someone to stumble,
For they can not sleepe, except they haue done euill, and their sleepe departeth except they cause some to fall.
17 For they consume bread gotten by lawlessness, and, wine obtained by violence, they drink.
For they eate the breade of wickednesse, and drinke the wine of violence.
18 But, the path of the righteous, is as the light of dawn, —going on and brightening, unto meridian day.
But the way of the righteous shineth as the light, that shineth more and more vnto the perfite day.
19 The way of the lawless, is like darkness, they know not, at what they stumble.
The way of the wicked is as the darkenes: they knowe not wherein they shall fall.
20 My son, to my words, attend, to my sayings, incline thou thine ear;
My sonne, hearken vnto my wordes, incline thine eare vnto my sayings.
21 Let them not depart from thine eyes, keep them in the midst of thy heart;
Let them not depart from thine eyes, but keepe them in the middes of thine heart.
22 For, life, they are, to them who find them, —and, to every part of one’s flesh, they bring healing.
For they are life vnto those that find them, and health vnto all their flesh.
23 Above all that must be guarded, keep thou thy heart, for, out of it, are the issues of life.
Keepe thine heart with all diligence: for thereout commeth life.
24 Remove from thee, perverseness of mouth, and, craftiness of lips, put far from thee.
Put away from thee a froward mouth, and put wicked lippes farre from thee.
25 Let, thine eyes, right onward, look, —and, thine eyelashes, point straight before thee.
Let thine eyes beholde the right, and let thine eyelids direct thy way before thee.
26 Make level the track of thy foot, that, all thy ways, may be directed aright:
Ponder the path of thy feete, and let all thy waies be ordred aright.
27 Decline not, to the right hand or to the left, —Turn away thy foot from wickedness.
Turne not to the right hande, nor to the left, but remooue thy foote from euill.
