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¹ Hear, my sons, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding:² For I give you good doctrine; forsake ye not my law.³ For I was a son unto my father, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.⁴ And he taught me, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words; keep my commandments, and live:⁵ Get wisdom, get understanding; forget it not, neither decline from the words of my mouth:⁶ Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee; love her, and she shall keep thee.⁷ Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: yea, with all thou hast gotten get understanding.⁸ Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.⁹ She shall give to thine head a chaplet of grace: a crown of beauty shall she deliver to thee.¹⁰ Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.¹¹ I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in paths of uprightness.¹² When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and if thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.¹³ Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.

¹⁴ Enter not into the path of the wicked, and walk not in the way of evil men.¹⁵ Avoid it, pass not by it; turn from it, and pass on.¹⁶ For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.¹⁷ For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.¹⁸ But the path of the righteous is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.¹⁹ The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.

²⁰ My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.²¹ Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.²² For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.²³ Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.²⁴ Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.²⁵ Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.²⁶ Make level the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.²⁷ Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.