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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 law.³ For I was my father's son, tender and only [beloved] in the sight of my mother.⁴ He taught me also, and said to me, Let thy 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: and with all thy getting get understanding.⁸ Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honor, when thou dost embrace her.⁹ She shall give to thy head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory 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 right paths.¹² When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when 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 go not in the way of evil [men].¹⁵ Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.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 just [is] as the shining light, that shineth more and more to 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 thy ear to my sayings.²¹ Let them not depart from thy eyes; keep them in the midst of thy heart.²² For they [are] life to 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 thy eyes look right on, and let thy eyelids look straight before thee.²⁶ Ponder 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.