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| Proverbs 4:1 | Hear, [my] sons, the instruction of a father, And attend to know understanding: | | Listen, sons, to a father's instruction. Pay attention and know understanding; | Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend that you may know prudence. |
| Proverbs 4:2 | For I give you good doctrine; Forsake ye not my law. | | For I give you sound learning. Don't forsake my law. | I will give you a good gift, forsake not my law. |
| Proverbs 4:3 | For I was a son unto my father, Tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother. | | For I was a son to my father, Tender and an only child in the sight of my mother. | For I also was my father's son, tender and as an only son in the sight of my mother: |
| Proverbs 4:4 | And he taught me, and said unto me: Let thy heart retain my words; Keep my commandments, and live; | | He taught me, and said to me: "Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live. | And he taught me, and said: Let thy heart receive my words, keep my commandments, and thou shalt live. |
| Proverbs 4:5 | Get wisdom, get understanding; Forget not, neither decline from the words of my mouth; | | Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don't forget, neither swerve from the words of my mouth. | Get wisdom, get prudence: forget not, neither decline from the words of my mouth. |
| Proverbs 4:6 | Forsake her not, and she will preserve thee; Love her, and she will keep thee. | | Don't forsake her, and she will preserve you. Love her, and she will keep you. | Forsake her not, and she shall keep thee: love her, and she shall preserve thee. |
| Proverbs 4:7 | Wisdom [is] the principal thing; [therefore] get wisdom; Yea, with all thy getting get understanding. | | Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding. | The beginning of wisdom, get wisdom, and with all thy possession purchase prudence. |
| Proverbs 4:8 | Exalt her, and she will promote thee; She will bring thee to honor, when thou dost embrace her. | | Esteem her, and she will exalt you. She will bring you to honor, when you embrace her. | Take hold on her, and she shall exalt thee: thou shalt be glorified by her, when thou shalt embrace her. |
| Proverbs 4:9 | She will give to thy head a chaplet of grace; A crown of beauty will she deliver to thee. | | She will give to your head a garland of grace. A crown of splendor will she deliver to you." | She shall give to thy head increase of graces, and protect thee with a noble crown. |
| Proverbs 4:10 | Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; And the years of thy life shall be many. | | Listen, my son, and receive my sayings. The years of your life will be many. | Hear, O my son, and receive my words, that years of life may be multiplied to thee. |
| Proverbs 4:11 | I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in paths of uprightness. | | I have taught you in the way of wisdom. I have led you in paths of uprightness. | I will shew thee the way of wisdom, I will lead thee by the paths of equity: |
| Proverbs 4:12 | When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; And if thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble. | | When you go, your steps will not be hampered. When you run, you will not stumble. | Which when thou shalt have entered, thy steps shall not be straitened, and when thou runnest thou shalt not meet a stumblingblock. |
| Proverbs 4:13 | Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: Keep her; for she is thy life. | | Take firm hold of instruction. Don't let her go. Keep her, for she is your life. | Take hold on instruction, leave it not: keep it, because it is thy life. |
| Proverbs 4:14 | Enter not into the path of the wicked, And walk not in the way of evil men. | | Don't enter into the path of the wicked. Don't walk in the way of evil men. | Be not delighted in the paths of the wicked, neither let the way of evil men please thee. |
| Proverbs 4:15 | Avoid it, pass not by it; Turn from it, and pass on. | | Avoid it, and don't pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on. | Flee from it, pass not by it: go aside, and forsake it. |
| Proverbs 4:16 | For they sleep not, except they do evil; And their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall. | | For they don't sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall. | For they sleep not except they have done evil: and their sleep is taken away unless they have made some to fall. |
| Proverbs 4:17 | For they eat the bread of wickedness, And drink the wine of violence. | | For they eat the bread of wickedness, And drink the wine of violence. | They eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of iniquity. |
| Proverbs 4:18 | But the path of the righteous is as the dawning light, That shineth more and more unto the perfect day. | | But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light, That shines more and more until the perfect day. | But the path of the just, as a shining light, goeth forwards and increaseth even to perfect day. |
| Proverbs 4:19 | The way of the wicked is as darkness: They know not at what they stumble. | | The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don't know what they stumble over. | The way of the wicked is darksome: they know not where they fall. |
| Proverbs 4:20 | My son, attend to my words; Incline thine ear unto my sayings. | | My son, attend to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings. | My son, hearken to my words, and incline thy ear to my sayings. |
| Proverbs 4:21 | Let them not depart from thine eyes; Keep them in the midst of thy heart. | | Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the midst of your heart. | Let them not depart from thy eyes, keep them in the midst of thy heart: |
| Proverbs 4:22 | For they are life unto those that find them, And health to all their flesh. | | For they are life to those who find them, And health to their whole body. | For they are life to those that find them, and health to all flesh. |
| Proverbs 4:23 | Keep thy heart with all diligence; For out of it are the issues of life. | | Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it is the wellspring of life. | With all watchfulness keep thy heart, because life issueth out from it. |
| Proverbs 4:24 | Put away from thee a wayward mouth, And perverse lips put far from thee. | | Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you. | Remove from thee a froward mouth, and let detracting lips be far from thee. |
| Proverbs 4:25 | Let thine eyes look right on, And let thine eyelids look straight before thee. | | Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you. | Let thy eyes look straight on, and let thy eyelids go before thy steps. |
| Proverbs 4:26 | Make level the path of thy feet, And let all thy ways be established. | | Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established. | Make straight the path for thy feet, and all thy ways shall be established. |
| Proverbs 4:27 | Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: Remove thy foot from evil. | | Don't turn to the right hand nor to the left. Remove your foot from evil. | Decline not to the right hand, nor to the left: turn away thy foot from evil. For the Lord knoweth the ways that are on the right hand: but those are perverse which are on the left hand. But he will make thy courses straight, he will bring forward thy ways in peace. |
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