Book 28 : KETUVIM - PROVERBS - Chapter 004
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Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend
to know understanding
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For I give you good doctrine; forsake ye not my teaching
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For I was a son unto my father, tender and an only one in
the sight of my mother
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And he taught me, and said unto me: 'Let thy heart hold
fast my words, keep my commandments, and live
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Get wisdom, get understanding; forget not, neither decline
from the words of my mouth
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Forsake her not, and she will preserve thee; love her, and
she will keep thee
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The beginning of wisdom is: Get wisdom; yea, with all thy
getting get understanding
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Extol her, and she will exalt thee; she will bring thee to
honour, when thou dost embrace her
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She will give to thy head a chaplet of grace; a crown of
glory will she bestow on thee.
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Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of
thy life shall be many
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I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee
in paths of uprightness
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When thou goest, thy step shall not be straitened; and if
thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble
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Take fast hold of instruction, let her not go; keep her,
for she is thy life
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Enter not into the path of the wicked, and walk not in the
way of evil men
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Avoid it, pass not by it; turn from it, and pass on
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For they sleep not, except they have done evil; and their
sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall
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For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine
of violence
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But the path of the righteous is as the light of dawn,
that shineth more and more unto the perfect day
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The way of the wicked is as darkness; they know not at
what they stumble
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My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my
sayings
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Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the
midst of thy heart
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For they are life unto those that find them, and health to
all their flesh
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Above all that thou guardest keep thy heart; for out of it
are the issues of life
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Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put
far from thee
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Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look
straight before thee
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Make plain the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be
established
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Turn not to the right hand nor to the left; remove thy
foot from evil
Book 28 : KETUVIM - PROVERBS - Chapter 004
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