en_wbms - Pro 4 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ Sons, hear ye the teaching of your father; and perceive ye, that ye know prudence.

² I shall give to you a good gift; forsake ye not my law.

³ For why and I was the son of my father, a tender son, and one begotten, before my mother.

⁴ And my father taught me, and said, Thine heart receive my words; keep thou my behests, and thou shalt live.

⁵ Wield thou wisdom, wield thou prudence; forget thou not, neither bow thou away from the words of my mouth.

⁶ Forsake thou not it, and it shall keep thee; love thou it, and it shall keep thee.

⁷ The beginning of wisdom, wield thou wisdom; and in all thy possession, get thou prudence.

⁸ Take thou it, and it shall enhance thee; thou shalt be glorified of it, when thou hast embraced it.

⁹ It shall give increasings of graces to thine head; and a noble crown shall defend thee.

¹⁰ My son, hear thou, and take my words; that the years of life be multiplied to thee.

¹¹ I shall show to thee the way of wisdom; and I shall lead thee by the paths of equity.

¹² Into which when thou hast entered, thy goings shall not be made strait; and thou shalt run, and shalt not have hurting.

¹³ Hold thou teaching, and forsake [thou] it not; keep thou it, for it is thy life.

¹⁴ Delight thou not in the paths of wicked men; and the way of evil men please not thee.

¹⁵ Flee thou from it, and pass thou not thereby; bow thou away, and forsake it.

¹⁶ For they sleep not, no but they have done evil; and sleep is ravished from them, no but they have deceived simple men.

¹⁷ They eat the bread of unpiety, and drink the wine of wickedness.

¹⁸ But the path of just [or rightwise] men goeth forth as light shining, and increaseth till to [a] perfect day.

¹⁹ The way of wicked men is dark; they know not where they shall fall.

²⁰ My son, hearken thou to my words; and bow down thine ears to my speeches.

²¹ Go not they away from thine eyes; keep thou them in the middle of thine heart.

²² For those be life to men finding those, and health of all flesh.

²³ With all keeping keep thine heart, for life cometh forth of it.

²⁴ Remove thou a shrewd mouth from thee; and backbiting lips be far from thee.

²⁵ Thine eyes see rightful [or right] things; and thine eyelids go before thy steps.

²⁶ Address thou [the] paths to thy feet, and all thy ways shall be stablished.

²⁷ Bow thou not to the right side, neither to the left side; turn away thy foot from evil.