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href="/proverbs/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And he taught me, and said unto me:</div><div class="po2">‘Let thy heart hold fast my words,</div><div class="po2">Keep my commandments, and live;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Get wisdom, get understanding;</div><div class="po2">Forget not, neither decline from the words of my mouth;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Forsake her not, and she will preserve thee;</div><div class="po2">Love her, and she will keep thee.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The beginning of wisdom is: Get wisdom;</div><div class="po2">Yea, with all thy getting get understanding.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Extol her, and she will exalt thee;</div><div class="po2">She will bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>She will give to thy head a chaplet of grace;</div><div class="po2">A crown of glory will she bestow on thee.’</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings;</div><div class="po2">And the years of thy life shall be many.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>I have taught thee in the way of wisdom;</div><div class="po2">I have led thee in paths of uprightness.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>When thou goest, thy step shall not be straitened;</div><div class="po2">And if thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Take fast hold of instruction, let her not go;</div><div class="po2">Keep her, for she is thy life.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Enter not into the path of the wicked,</div><div class="po2">And walk not in the way of evil men.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Avoid it, pass not by it;</div><div class="po2">Turn from it, and pass on.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>For they sleep not, except they have done evil;</div><div class="po2">And their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>For they eat the bread of wickedness,</div><div class="po2">And drink the wine of violence.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/4-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>But the path of the righteous is as the light of dawn,</div><div class="po2">That shineth more and more unto the perfect day.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/4-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The way of the wicked is as darkness;</div><div class="po2">They know not at what they stumble.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/4-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>My son, attend to my words;</div><div class="po2">Incline thine ear unto my sayings.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/4-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Let them not depart from thine eyes;</div><div class="po2">Keep them in the midst of thy heart.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/4-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>For they are life unto those that find them,</div><div class="po2">And health to all their flesh.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/4-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Above all that thou guardest keep thy heart;</div><div class="po2">For out of it are the issues of life.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/4-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Put away from thee a froward mouth,</div><div class="po2">And perverse lips put far from thee.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/4-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Let thine eyes look right on,</div><div class="po2">And let thine eyelids look straight before thee.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/4-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Make plain the path of thy feet,</div><div class="po2">And let all thy ways be established.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/4-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Turn not to the right hand nor to the left;</div><div class="po2">Remove thy foot from evil.</div></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">THE HOLY SCRIPTURES<br>ACCORDING TO THE MASORETIC TEXT<br>A NEW TRANSLATION<p><a href="//www.jps.org/">Jewish Publication Society</a><br>1917<span class="p"><br /><br 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