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  • 1. Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know intelligence;
  • 2. for I give you good doctrine: forsake ye not my law.
  • 3. For I was a son unto my father, tender and an only one in the sight of my mother.
  • 4. And he taught me, and said unto me, Let thy heart retain my words; keep my commandments and live.
  • 5. Get wisdom, get intelligence: forget [it] not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.
  • 6. Forsake her not, and she shall keep thee; love her, and she shall preserve thee.
  • 7. The beginning of wisdom [is], Get wisdom; and with all thy getting get intelligence.
  • 8. Exalt her, and she shall promote thee; she shall bring thee to honour when thou dost embrace her.
  • 9. She shall give to thy head a garland of grace; a crown of glory will she bestow upon thee.
  • 10. Hear, my son, and receive my sayings, and the years of thy life shall be multiplied.
  • 11. I will teach thee in the way of wisdom, I will lead thee in paths of uprightness.
  • 12. When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.
  • 13. Take fast hold of instruction, let [her] not go: keep her, for she is thy life.
  • 14. Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil [men]:
  • 15. avoid it, pass not by it; turn from it, and pass away.
  • 16. For they sleep not except they have done mischief, and their sleep is taken away unless they have caused [some] to fall.
  • 17. For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
  • 18. But the path of the righteous is as the shining light, going on and brightening until the day be fully come.
  • 19. The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
  • 20. My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.
  • 21. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thy heart.
  • 22. For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
  • 23. Keep thy heart more than anything that is guarded; for out of it are the issues of life.
  • 24. Put away from thee perverseness of mouth, and corrupt lips put far from thee.
  • 25. Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
  • 26. Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be well-ordered.
  • 27. Turn not to the right hand nor to the left; remove thy foot from evil.