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¹ Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.² For I give you good doctrine; forsake ye not my teaching.³ For I was a son unto my father, tender and an only one in the sight of my mother.⁴ And he taught me, and said unto me: 'Let thy heart hold fast my words, keep my commandments, and live;⁵ Get wisdom, get understanding; forget not, neither decline from the words of my mouth;⁶ Forsake her not, and she will preserve thee; love her, and she will keep thee.⁷ The beginning of wisdom is: Get wisdom; yea, with all thy getting get understanding.⁸ Extol her, and she will exalt thee; she will bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.⁹ She will give to thy head a chaplet of grace; a crown of glory will she bestow on 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 step 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 evil; 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 light of dawn, 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 thy heart.²² For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.²³ Above all that thou guardest keep thy heart; 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 plain 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.