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Proverbs 4

Listen, my children, to a father’s instruction,

attend and learn intelligence:

I give you good counsel,

turn not from my teaching.

When I was a son with my father,

a little one, loved by my mother,

he taught me and told me this:

“Keep in mind what I say,

do what I bid you, and you shall live,

swerve not from my orders.

Get sense, get knowledge,

at any cost get knowledge--

never leave her, and she will guard you,

love her, and she will take care of you,

prize her, and she will promote you,

and bring you to honour, if you will embrace her,

she will adorn you with charm

and crown you with glory.

Listen, my son, take to heart what I say,

and the years of your life shall be many;

I am giving you wise directions

and leading you aright;

when you walk, you will never be hindered,

when you run, you will not slip.

Hold fast to my instructions, never let them go,

keep them--they are life to you.

Never set foot upon a bad man’s path,

and take not the road of evil men;

avoid it, never follow it,

shun it, and pass on.

For they cannot sleep till they have done some wrong,

till they have tripped up someone, they are sleepless;

they eat ill-gotten food

and drink wine won by cruelty.

The course of bad men lies through darkness dim,

they cannot see what makes them stumble;

the course of good men, like a ray of dawn,

shines on and on to the full light of day.

My son, attend to what I say,

bend your ear to my words;

never lose sight of them,

but fix them in your mind;

to those who find them, they are life,

and health to all their being.

Guard above all things, guard your inner self,

for so you live and prosper;

bar out all talk of evil,

and banish wayward words;

let your eyes look straight ahead,

gaze right in front of you;

keep a clear path before you,

and ever make your footing firm;

never turn to right or left,

draw back from a wrong step.

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