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Proverbs 4 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:1 - Hear, ye sons, the instruction of a father, And give attention to know understanding.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:2 - For good learning I have given to you, My law forsake not.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:3 - For, a son I have been to my father -- tender, And an only one before my mother.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:4 - And he directeth me, and he saith to me: 'Let thy heart retain my words, Keep my commands, and live.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:5 - Get wisdom, get understanding, Do not forget, nor turn away From the sayings of my mouth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:6 - Forsake her not, and she doth preserve thee, Love her, and she doth keep thee.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:7 - The first thing is wisdom -- get wisdom, And with all thy getting get understanding.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:8 - Exalt her, and she doth lift thee up, She honoureth thee, when thou dost embrace her.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:9 - She giveth to thy head a wreath of grace, A crown of beauty she doth give thee freely.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:10 - Hear, my son, and receive my sayings, And years of life are multiplied to thee.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:11 - In a way of wisdom I have directed thee, I have caused thee to tread in paths of uprightness.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:12 - In thy walking thy step is not straitened, And if thou runnest, thou stumblest not.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:13 - Lay hold on instruction, do not desist, Keep her, for she is thy life.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:14 - Into the path of the wicked enter not, And be not happy in a way of evil doers.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:15 - Avoid it, pass not over into it, Turn aside from it, and pass on.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:16 - For they sleep not if they do not evil, And their sleep hath been taken violently away, If they cause not some to stumble.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:17 - For they have eaten bread of wickedness, And wine of violence they drink.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:18 - And the path of the righteous is as a shining light, Going and brightening till the day is established,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:19 - The way of the wicked is as darkness, They have not known at what they stumble.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:20 - My son, to my words give attention, To my sayings incline thine ear,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:21 - Let them not turn aside from thine eyes, Preserve them in the midst of thy heart.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:22 - For life they are to those finding them, And to all their flesh healing.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:23 - Above every charge keep thy heart, For out of it are the outgoings of life.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:24 - Turn aside from thee a froward mouth, And perverse lips put far from thee,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:25 - Thine eyes do look straightforward, And thine eyelids look straight before thee.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:26 - Ponder thou the path of thy feet, And all thy ways are established.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:27 - Incline not to the right or to the left, Turn aside thy foot from evil!
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