Douay Bible - Proverbs Chapter 4
Proverbs 4:1
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend that you may know prudence.
Proverbs 4:2
I will give you a good gift, forsake not my law.
Proverbs 4:3
For I also was my father’s son, tender and as an only son in the sight of my mother:
Proverbs 4:4
And he taught me, and said: Let thy heart receive my words, keep my commandments, and thou shalt live.
Proverbs 4:5
Get wisdom, get prudence: forget not, neither decline from the words of my mouth.
Proverbs 4:6
Forsake her not, and she shall keep thee: love her, and she shall preserve thee.
Proverbs 4:7
The beginning of wisdom, get wisdom, and with all thy possession purchase prudence.
Proverbs 4:8
Take hold on her, and she shall exalt thee: thou shalt be glorified by her, when thou shalt embrace her.
Proverbs 4:9
She shall give to thy head increase of graces, and protect thee with a noble crown.
Proverbs 4:10
Hear, O my son, and receive my words, that years of life may be multiplied to thee.
Proverbs 4:11
I will shew thee the way of wisdom, I will lead thee by the paths of equity:
Proverbs 4:12
Which when thou shalt have entered, thy steps shall not be straitened, and when thou runnest thou shalt not meet a stumblingblock.
Proverbs 4:13
Take hold on instruction, leave it not: keep it, because it is thy life.
Proverbs 4:14
Be not delighted in the paths of the wicked, neither let the way of evil men please thee.
Proverbs 4:15
Flee from it, pass not by it: go aside, and forsake it.
Proverbs 4:16
For they sleep not except they have done evil: and their sleep is taken away unless they have made some to fall.
Proverbs 4:17
They eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of iniquity.
Proverbs 4:18
But the path of the just, as a shining light, goeth forwards and increaseth even to perfect day.
Proverbs 4:19
The way of the wicked is darksome: they know not where they fall.
Proverbs 4:20
My son, hearken to my words, and incline thy ear to my sayings.
Proverbs 4:21
Let them not depart from thy eyes, keep them in the midst of thy heart:
Proverbs 4:22
For they are life to those that find them, and health to all flesh.
Proverbs 4:23
With all watchfulness keep thy heart, because life issueth out from it.
Proverbs 4:24
Remove from thee a froward mouth, and let detracting lips be far from thee.
Proverbs 4:25
Let thy eyes look straight on, and let thy eyelids go before thy steps.
Proverbs 4:26
Make straight the path for thy feet, and all thy ways shall be established.
Proverbs 4:27
Decline not to the right hand, nor to the left: turn away thy foot from evil. For the Lord knoweth the ways that are on the right hand: but those are perverse which are on the left hand. But he will make thy courses straight, he will bring forward thy ways in peace.
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