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Listen to a Father's Instruction
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know intelligence;
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know intelligence;
for I give you good precepts;
do not forsake my teaching.
do not forsake my teaching.
for I give you good doctrine: forsake ye not my law.
When I was a son with my father,
tender, the only one in the sight of my mother,
tender, the only one in the sight of my mother,
For I was a son unto my father, tender and an only one in the sight of my mother.
he taught me and said to me,
“Let your heart hold fast my words;
keep my commandments, and live.
“Let your heart hold fast my words;
keep my commandments, and live.
And he taught me, and said unto me, Let thy heart retain my words; keep my commandments and live.
Get wisdom; get insight;
do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth.
do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth.
Get wisdom, get intelligence: forget [it] not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.
Do not forsake her, and she will keep you;
love her, and she will guard you.
love her, and she will guard you.
Forsake her not, and she shall keep thee; love her, and she shall preserve thee.
The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom,
and whatever you get, get insight.
and whatever you get, get insight.
The beginning of wisdom [is], Get wisdom; and with all thy getting get intelligence.
Prize her highly, and she will exalt you;
she will honor you if you embrace her.
she will honor you if you embrace her.
Exalt her, and she shall promote thee; she shall bring thee to honour when thou dost embrace her.
She will place on your head a graceful garland;
she will bestow on you a beautiful crown.”
she will bestow on you a beautiful crown.”
She shall give to thy head a garland of grace; a crown of glory will she bestow upon thee.
Hear, my son, and accept my words,
that the years of your life may be many.
that the years of your life may be many.
Hear, my son, and receive my sayings, and the years of thy life shall be multiplied.
I have taught you the way of wisdom;
I have led you in the paths of uprightness.
I have led you in the paths of uprightness.
I will teach thee in the way of wisdom, I will lead thee in paths of uprightness.
When you walk, your step will not be hampered,
and if you run, you will not stumble.
and if you run, you will not stumble.
When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.
Keep hold of instruction; do not let go;
guard her, for she is your life.
guard her, for she is your life.
Take fast hold of instruction, let [her] not go: keep her, for she is thy life.
Do not enter the path of the wicked,
and do not walk in the way of the evil.
and do not walk in the way of the evil.
Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil [men]:
Avoid it; do not go on it;
turn away from it and pass on.
turn away from it and pass on.
avoid it, pass not by it; turn from it, and pass away.
For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong;
they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble.
they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble.
For they sleep not except they have done mischief, and their sleep is taken away unless they have caused [some] to fall.
For they eat the bread of wickedness
and drink the wine of violence.
and drink the wine of violence.
For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn,
which shines brighter and brighter until full day.
which shines brighter and brighter until full day.
But the path of the righteous is as the shining light, going on and brightening until the day be fully come.
The way of the wicked is like deep darkness;
they do not know over what they stumble.
they do not know over what they stumble.
The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
My son, be attentive to my words;
incline your ear to my sayings.
incline your ear to my sayings.
My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.
Let them not escape from your sight;
keep them within your heart.
keep them within your heart.
Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thy heart.
For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
Keep your heart with all vigilance,
for from it flow the springs of life.
for from it flow the springs of life.
Keep thy heart more than anything that is guarded; for out of it are the issues of life.
Put away from you crooked speech,
and put devious talk far from you.
and put devious talk far from you.
Put away from thee perverseness of mouth, and corrupt lips put far from thee.
Let your eyes look directly forward,
and your gaze be straight before you.
and your gaze be straight before you.
Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be well-ordered.