Proverbs 4
1 Listen to O children [the] correction of a father and be attentive to know understanding.
Heare, O ye children, the instruction of a father, and giue eare to learne vnderstanding.
2 For instruction good I give to you instruction my may not you neglect.
For I doe giue you a good doctrine: therefore forsake yee not my lawe.
3 If a son I was of father my tender and only [child] before mother my.
For I was my fathers sonne, tender and deare 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.
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 may not you forget and may not you turn aside from [the] utterances of mouth my.
Get wisedom: get vnderstading: forget not, neither decline from the woordes 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 shee shall keepe thee: loue her and shee shall preserue thee.
7 [is] first Wisdom acquire wisdom and by all acquisition your acquire understanding.
Wisedome is the beginning: get wisedome therefore: and aboue all thy possession get vnderstanding.
8 Esteem her and she will exalt you she will honor you if you will embrace her.
Exalt her, and she shall exalt thee: she shall bring thee to honour, if thou embrace her.
9 She will put to head your a wreath of grace a crown of beauty she will give you.
She shall giue a comely ornamet vnto thine head, yea, she shall giue thee a crowne of glorie.
10 Listen O son my and receive words my so they may increase for you years of life.
Heare, my sonne, and receiue my wordes, and the yeeres of thy life shalbe many.
11 [the] way of Wisdom I taught you I led you in tracks of uprightness.
I haue taught thee in ye way of wisedom, and led thee in the pathes of righteousnesse.
12 When walking you not anyone will hinder step[s] your and if you will run not you will stumble.
Whe thou goest, thy gate shall not be strait, and when thou runnest, thou shalt not fall.
13 Take hold on discipline may not you let go keep her for she [is] life your.
Take holde of instruction, and leaue not: keepe her, for shee 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].
Enter not into the way of the wicked, and walke not in the way of euill men.
15 Avoid it may not you pass along on it turn aside from on it and pass on.
Auoide it, and goe not by it: turne from it, and passe by.
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 can not sleepe, except they haue done euill, and their sleepe departeth except they cause some to fall.
17 For they eat [the] bread of wickedness and [the] wine of violence they drink.
For they eate the breade of wickednesse, and drinke the wine of violence.
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 way of the righteous shineth as the light, that shineth more and more vnto the perfite day.
19 [the] way of Wicked [people] [is] like darkness not they know on what? are they stumbling.
The way of the wicked is as the darkenes: they knowe not wherein they shall fall.
20 O son my to words my be attentive! to utterances my incline ear your.
My sonne, hearken vnto my wordes, incline thine eare vnto my sayings.
21 Do not let them depart from eyes your keep them in [the] midst of heart your.
Let them not depart from thine eyes, but keepe them in the middes of thine heart.
22 For [are] life they to [those who] find them and to all flesh his health.
For they are life vnto those that find them, and health vnto all their flesh.
23 More than all guarding guard heart your for [are] from it [the] sources of life.
Keepe thine heart with all diligence: for thereout commeth life.
24 Remove from yourself crookedness of mouth and deviousness of lips put far away from yourself.
Put away from thee a froward mouth, and put wicked lippes farre from thee.
25 Eyes your before let them look and eyelids your let them look straight before you.
Let thine eyes beholde the right, and let thine eyelids direct thy way before thee.
26 Make level [the] track of foot your and all ways your let them be steadfast.
Ponder the path of thy feete, and let all thy waies be ordred aright.
27 May not you turn aside right and left turn aside foot your from evil.
Turne not to the right hande, nor to the left, but remooue thy foote from euill.
