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4 Children, listen carefully to what I, your father, am teaching you.
Pay attention in order to learn what you should understand.
2 Do this because what I am teaching you is good.
So remember the rules that I am teaching you.
3 I was once my father’s boy,
and my mother considered me to be her delicate, only son.
4 During that time, my father taught me. He told me,
“Remember what I have told you!
Do what I have commanded you, so that you will keep on living!
5 Obtain what is wise and what you should understand!
Always remember what I have spoken to you!
6 Remember what is wise, so that it will be like a woman who keeps you safe.
Love what is wise, so that it will be like a woman who protects you.
7 Being wise is the most important thing! So obtain what is wise!
Even if it costs you everything that you own, obtain what you should understand!
8 Prize what is wise, so that you will become great.
People will honor you when you value what is wise.
9 Being wise will make you respectable, as if it put an attractive wreath on your head.
Indeed, being wise will make you honorable, as if it gave you a magnificent crown.”
10 My son, listen attentively and accept what I say.
Doing so will increase the number of years that you live.
11 I instructed you in how to act wisely.
I directed you in how to act uprightly. 12 When you do something, nothing will prevent you from succeeding.
Indeed, if you do anything, you will succeed.
13 Consistently remember the things I have instructed you;
keep remembering them!
Always be mindful of them, because they will keep you alive.
14 Do not do what wicked people do.
Indeed, do not act like evil people act.
15 Shun doing what is evil. Do not even consider doing it!
Refuse to act wickedly and do something else.
16 Do not act wickedly because it is as if evil people cannot even sleep unless they do something evil;
it is as if they cannot rest unless they hurt someone.
17 Do not act wickedly because evil people do wicked things as if they were eating food;
they violently hurt others as if they were drinking wine.
18 As for righteous people, they will live wisely and safely like the light of the sun at dawn.
They will live more and more wisely and safely as the sun shines brighter and brighter until the brightest time of day.
19 But wicked people will live dangerously like people who walk in total darkness.
They do not know what hurts them as people walking in darkness do not know what they trip over.
20 My son, pay attention to what I am saying to you!
Listen carefully to what I say!
21 Always remember what I say!
Fully commit yourself to remembering them!
22 Do this because those who do so will live for a long time,
even their whole bodies will be healthy.
23 Be extremely careful about what you think,
because what you think will control how you live.
24 Do not say anything that deceives people.
Indeed, never say anything that misleads people.
25 Focus on doing what is right, like someone who is always looking straight ahead.
Indeed, act like someone who is looking straight in front of himself.
26 Carefully consider what you do.
As a result of doing so, you will succeed in everything that you do.
27 Do not do anything other than what is right.
Prevent yourself from doing what is evil.
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