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ULT PRO Chapter 4

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4 Hear, sons, the instruction of a father,

and listen attentively in order to know understanding.

2 For I give good teaching to you;

do not forsake my law.

3 When I was a son of my father,

the tender and only one before the face of my mother,

4 then he taught me and said to me,

“Let your heart grasp my words;

keep my commandments and live!

5 Acquire wisdom, acquire understanding;

do not forget and do not veer from the sayings of my mouth.

6 Do not forsake her and she will preserve you;

love her and she will guard you.

7 The beginning of wisdom: acquire wisdom!

And with all your acquisition acquire understanding!

8 Cherish her and she will raise you up;

she will honor you when you embrace her.

9 She will give for your head a garland of grace;

with a crown of splendor she will cover you.”

10 Hear, my son, and receive my sayings,

and they will multiply for you the years of life.

11 In the way of wisdom I taught you;

I caused you to tread in the tracks of uprightness.

12 When you walk, your step will not be restricted;

and if you run, you will not stumble.

13 Grasp on to instruction, do not let go;

guard it, for it is your life.

14 On the path of wicked ones do not go

and do not advance on the way of evil ones.

15 Avoid it, do not pass through it;

veer from it and pass on!

16 For they do not sleep if they do not do evil

and their sleep is robbed if they do not cause stumbling.

17 For they eat the bread of wickedness

and the wine of violent acts they drink.

18 But the path of the righteous ones is like the light of brightness,

going and shining until the day is established.

19 The way of the wicked ones is like the darkness;

they do not know on what they stumble.

20 My son, listen attentively to my words;

incline your ear to my sayings.

21 Do not let them depart from your eyes;

keep them in the midst of your heart.

22 For they are life to those who find them

and healing to all of his flesh.

23 Guard your heart more than all that is protected,

for from it are the sources of life.

24 Remove from you perversity of mouth,

and the deviousness of lips put far away from you.

25 Cause your eyes to gaze to the front,

and cause your eyelids to be straight in front of you.

26 Make level [fn] the track of your foot

and all your ways will be firm.

27 Do not veer right or left;

cause your foot to turn away from evil.

Instead of make level some scholars read the Hebrew word as examine.

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