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¹ Heare, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know vnderstanding. ² For I giue you good doctrine: forsake you not my law. ³ For I was my fathers sonne, tender and onely beloued in the sight of my mother. ⁴ He taught me also, and said vnto me, Let thine heart reteine my wordes: keepe my commandements, and liue. ⁵ Get wisedome, get vnderstanding: forget it not, neither decline from the wordes of my mouth. ⁶ Forsake her not, and she shall preserue thee: loue her, and she shall keepe thee. ⁷ Wisedome is the principall thing, therefore get wisedome: and with all thy getting, get vnderstanding. ⁸ Exalt her, and shee shall promote thee: shee shall bring thee to honour, when thou doest imbrace her. ⁹ She shall giue to thine head an ornament of grace, a crowne of glory shall she deliuer to thee. ¹⁰ Heare, O my sonne, and receiue my sayings: and the yeeres of thy life shalbe many. ¹¹ I haue taught thee in the way of wisedome: I haue lead thee in right pathes. ¹² When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitned, and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble. ¹³ Take fast hold of instruction, let her not goe; keepe her, for she is thy life.

¹⁴ Enter not into the path of the wicked, and goe not in the way of euill men. ¹⁵ Auoid it, passe not by it, turne from it, and passe away. ¹⁶ For they sleepe not except they haue done mischiefe: and their sleepe is taken away vnlesse they cause some to fall. ¹⁷ For they eate the bread of wickednesse, and drinke the wine of violence. ¹⁸ But the path of the iust is as the shining light that shineth more and more vnto the perfect day. ¹⁹ The way of the wicked is as darknes: they know not at what they stumble.

²⁰ My sonne, attend to my words, incline thine eare vnto my sayings. ²¹ Let them not depart from thine eyes: keepe them in the midst of thine heart. ²² For they are life vnto those that find them, and health to all their flesh. ²³ Keepe thy heart with all diligence: for out of it are the issues of life. ²⁴ Put away from thee a froward mouth, and peruerse lips put farre from thee. ²⁵ Let thine eyes looke right on, and let thine eye lids looke straight before thee. ²⁶ Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy wayes be established. ²⁷ Turne not to the right hande nor to the left: remoue thy foot fro euil.