Proverbs 4
1 Listen to O children [the] correction of a father and be attentive to know understanding.
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend that you may know prudence.
2 For instruction good I give to you instruction my may not you neglect.
I will give you a good gift, forsake not my law.
3 If a son I was of father my tender and only [child] before mother my.
For I also was my father’s son, tender and as an only son in the sight of my mother:
4 And he taught me and he said to me let it hold fast to words my heart your keep commandments my and live.
And he taught me, and said: Let thy heart receive my words, keep my commandments, and thou shalt live.
5 Acquire wisdom acquire understanding may not you forget and may not you turn aside from [the] utterances of mouth my.
Get wisdom, get prudence: forget not, neither decline from the words of my mouth.
6 May not you abandon her and she will keep you love her and she will guard you.
Forsake her not, and she shall keep thee: love her, and she shall preserve thee.
7 [is] first Wisdom acquire wisdom and by all acquisition your acquire understanding.
The beginning of wisdom, get wisdom, and with all thy possession purchase prudence.
8 Esteem her and she will exalt you she will honor you if you will embrace her.
Take hold on her, and she shall exalt thee: thou shalt be glorified by her, when thou shalt embrace her.
9 She will put to head your a wreath of grace a crown of beauty she will give you.
She shall give to thy head increase of graces, and protect thee with a noble crown.
10 Listen O son my and receive words my so they may increase for you years of life.
Hear, O my son, and receive my words, that years of life may be multiplied to thee.
11 [the] way of Wisdom I taught you I led you in tracks of uprightness.
I will shew thee the way of wisdom, I will lead thee by the paths of equity:
12 When walking you not anyone will hinder step[s] your and if you will run not you will stumble.
Which when thou shalt have entered, thy steps shall not be straitened, and when thou runnest thou shalt not meet a stumblingblock.
13 Take hold on discipline may not you let go keep her for she [is] life your.
Take hold on instruction, leave it not: keep it, because it is thy life.
14 In [the] path of wicked [people] may not you go and may not you advance in [the] way of evil [people].
Be not delighted in the paths of the wicked, neither let the way of evil men please thee.
15 Avoid it may not you pass along on it turn aside from on it and pass on.
Flee from it, pass not by it: go aside, and forsake it.
16 For not they will sleep if not they do harm and it is taken away sleep their if not (they bring injury. *Q(K)*)
For they sleep not except they have done evil: and their sleep is taken away unless they have made some to fall.
17 For they eat [the] bread of wickedness and [the] wine of violence they drink.
They eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of iniquity.
18 And [the] path of righteous [people] [is] like a light of brightness [which] goes and [which] shines until [the] established [part] of the day.
But the path of the just, as a shining light, goeth forwards and increaseth even to perfect day.
19 [the] way of Wicked [people] [is] like darkness not they know on what? are they stumbling.
The way of the wicked is darksome: they know not where they fall.
20 O son my to words my be attentive! to utterances my incline ear your.
My son, hearken to my words, and incline thy ear to my sayings.
21 Do not let them depart from eyes your keep them in [the] midst of heart your.
Let them not depart from thy eyes, keep them in the midst of thy heart:
22 For [are] life they to [those who] find them and to all flesh his health.
For they are life to those that find them, and health to all flesh.
23 More than all guarding guard heart your for [are] from it [the] sources of life.
With all watchfulness keep thy heart, because life issueth out from it.
24 Remove from yourself crookedness of mouth and deviousness of lips put far away from yourself.
Remove from thee a froward mouth, and let detracting lips be far from thee.
25 Eyes your before let them look and eyelids your let them look straight before you.
Let thy eyes look straight on, and let thy eyelids go before thy steps.
26 Make level [the] track of foot your and all ways your let them be steadfast.
Make straight the path for thy feet, and all thy ways shall be established.
27 May not you turn aside right and left turn aside foot your from evil.
Decline not to the right hand, nor to the left: turn away thy foot from evil. For the Lord knoweth the ways that are on the right hand: but those are perverse which are on the left hand. But he will make thy courses straight, he will bring forward thy ways in peace.
