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4:1  Hear, children, the instruction of a father, and listen to knowledge and understanding.
4:2  Because I have given you good teaching, forsake not my law.
4:3  For I have been a delightful son to my father and an only child in the presence of my mother.
4:4  And he taught me and said to me, “Confirm my word in your heart; keep my commandments and live, and my law like the pupils of the eyes.”
4:5  “Get wisdom and get understanding, and do not turn aside from the sayings of my mouth.”
4:6  “Do not forsake her that she may keep you; love her that she may deliver you.”
4:7  Wisdom is the summit; get wisdom, and with all your possessions purchase understanding.
4:8  Love her that she may exalt you and embrace her that she may honor you.
4:9  And she will put the beauty of grace on your head and she will satisfy you with a crown of glory.
4:10  Hear, my son, and receive my words, and the years of your life will be many.
4:11  I have taught you the ways of wisdom and I have led you in the straight paths.
4:12  And when you walk, your walking will not quake, and if you run, you will not stumble.
4:13  Hold my instruction fast and do not forsake her; keep her because she is your life.
4:14  Do not go in the way of sinners and do not envy the way of the evil.
4:15  Do not pass through the place where they dwell, but turn aside and pass from it.
4:16  They do not sleep until they do evil and their sleep flees away until they do their desires.
4:17  Because their food is the food of evil and they drink the wine of depravity.
4:18  But the way of the righteous ones is like the shining light, and the light progresses until the day is established.
4:19  But the way of the wicked is darkness and they do not know on what they stumble.
4:20  My son, give ear to my words and incline your ear to my speech.
4:21  Do not let them depart before your eyes but keep them within your heart.
4:22  Because he who finds them has life, and all healing in his flesh.
4:23  Keep your heart with all caution because from it is the outgoing of life.
4:24  Cause the perverse mouth to pass from you, and put far from your lips the thought of depravity.
4:25  Let your eyes see in uprightness and let your eyelashes be straight before you.
4:26  Let your foot pass from evil streets and all your ways will be established.
4:27  Do not turn aside to the right or to the left, but remove your foot from evil.