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¹ Sons, hear the instruction of a father, pay attention to know understanding,² for I give you good teaching; do not forsake my law.³ For I was my father's son, tender and an only one in the sight of my mother.⁴ And he taught me and said to me, Let your heart cling to my words; keep my commands and live.⁵ Get wisdom, get understanding; do not forsake and do not turn away from the words of my mouth.⁶ Do not forsake her, and she will preserve you; love her, and she will keep you.⁷ Wisdom is the main thing; get wisdom, and with all your getting, get understanding.⁸ Exalt her, and she will lift you up; she shall bring you to honor when you embrace her.⁹ She shall give a wreath of grace to your head; she shall shield you with a crown of glory.¹⁰ Oh my son, hear and receive my sayings, and the years of your life shall be many.¹¹ I have taught you in the way of wisdom; I have led you in the right tracks;¹² when you go, your tracks shall not be narrowed, and when you run, you shall not stumble.¹³ Take fast hold of instruction, do not let her go; keep her, for she is your life.

¹⁴ Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not go in the way of evildoers.¹⁵ Avoid it, do not pass by it; turn from it and pass on.¹⁶ For they do not sleep if they have done no 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 just is as a bright light going on and shining till the day is established.¹⁹ The way of the wicked is as darkness; they do not know at what they stumble.

²⁰ My son, pay attention to my words; stretch your ear to what I say;²¹ let them not depart from your eyes; keep them in the center of your heart;²² for they are life to those who find them, and healing to all his flesh.²³ Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life.²⁴ Turn away from you the crooked mouth, and put perverse lips far from you.²⁵ Let your eyes look straight ahead, and let your eyelids look straight before you.²⁶ Study the track of your feet, then all your ways will be established.²⁷ Do not turn to the right hand or to the left; turn your foot aside from evil.