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| 4:1 |
 eare, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know vnderstanding. |
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| 4:2 |
For I giue you good doctrine: forsake you not my law. |
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| 4:3 |
For I was my fathers sonne, tender and onely beloued in the sight of my mother. |
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| 4:4 |
He taught me also, and said vnto me, Let thine heart reteine my wordes: keepe my commandements, and liue. |
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| 4:5 |
Get wisedome, get vnderstanding: forget it not, neither decline from the wordes of my mouth. |
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| 4:6 |
Forsake her not, and she shall preserue thee: loue her, and she shall keepe thee. |
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| 4:7 |
Wisedome is the principall thing, therefore get wisedome: and with all thy getting, get vnderstanding. |
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| 4:8 |
Exalt her, and shee shall promote thee: shee shall bring thee to honour, when thou doest imbrace her. |
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| 4:9 |
She shall giue to thine head an ornament of grace, a crowne of glory shall she deliuer to thee. |
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| 4:10 |
Heare, O my sonne, and receiue my sayings: and the yeeres of thy life shalbe many. |
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| 4:11 |
I haue taught thee in the way of wisedome: I haue lead thee in right pathes. |
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| 4:12 |
When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitned, and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble. |
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| 4:13 |
Take fast hold of instruction, let her not goe; keepe her, for she is thy life. |
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| 4:14 |
Enter not into the path of the wicked, and goe not in the way of euill men. |
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| 4:15 |
Auoid it, passe not by it, turne from it, and passe away. |
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| 4:16 |
For they sleepe not except they haue done mischiefe: and their sleepe is taken away vnlesse they cause some to fall. |
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| 4:17 |
For they eate the bread of wickednesse, and drinke the wine of violence. |
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| 4:18 |
But the path of the iust is as the shining light that shineth more and more vnto the perfect day. |
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| 4:19 |
The way of the wicked is as darknes: they know not at what they stumble. |
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| 4:20 |
My sonne, attend to my words, incline thine eare vnto my sayings. |
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| 4:21 |
Let them not depart from thine eyes: keepe them in the midst of thine heart. |
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| 4:22 |
For they are life vnto those that find them, and health to all their flesh. |
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| 4:23 |
Keepe thy heart with all diligence: for out of it are the issues of life. |
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| 4:24 |
Put away from thee a froward mouth, and peruerse lips put farre from thee. |
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| 4:25 |
Let thine eyes looke right on, and let thine eye lids looke straight before thee. |
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| 4:26 |
Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy wayes be established. |
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| 4:27 |
Turne not to the right hande nor to the left: remoue thy foot fro euil. |
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