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4:1  Hear, ye banim, the musar (instruction, discipline) of an av, and attend to know binah (understanding).
4:2  For I give you lekach tov (good doctrine, good instruction), forsake ye not my torah.
4:3  For I was ben to avi, tender and yachid (an only child) before immi.
4:4  He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine lev retain my words; be shomer over my mitzvot, and live.
4:5  Acquire chochmah, acquire binah (understanding); forget it not; neither turn from the words of my peh (mouth).
4:6  Forsake her not, and she shall be shomer over thee; love her, and she shall protect thee.
4:7  Chochmah is the principal thing; therefore get chochmah, and with all thy getting get binah (understanding).
4:8  Exalt her, and she shall promote thee; she shall honor thee with kavod, when thou dost embrace her.
4:9  She shall give to thine head a garland of chen; an ateret (crown) of tiferet (glory) shall she present to thee.
4:10  Hear, O beni (my son), and receive my sayings; and thy shnot chayyim shall be many.
4:11  I have taught thee in the derech chochmah; I have led thee in ma’aglei yosher (right paths).
4:12  When thou goest, thy steps shall not be hindered; and when thou runnest, lo tikashel (thou shalt not stumble).
4:13  Take firm hold of musar; let her not go; guard her; for she is thy chayyim.
4:14  Enter not into the orach resha’im, and go not on the derech ra’im (road of the wicked).
4:15  Avoid it, travel al (not) on it, turn from it, and pass on.
4:16  For they sleep not, unless they have done evil; and their sheynah (sleep) is robbed, unless they cause some to fall.
4:17  For they eat the lechem of resha, and drink the yayin of chamasim (violences).
4:18  But the orach tzaddikim (path of the righteous) is as the bright light, that shineth brighter and brighter unto the full day.
4:19  The derech resha’im is as deep darkness; they know not at what they stumble.
4:20  Beni (my son), attend to my words; incline thine ozen unto my sayings.
4:21  Let them not depart from thine eyes; be shomer over them within thine lev.
4:22  For they are chayyim unto those that find them, and health to all their basar.
4:23  Set watch over and guard thy lev with all diligence; for out of it are the totze’ot chayyim (issues, wellsprings of life cf Mk 7:20-23).
4:24  Put away from thee a deceitful peh (mouth), and perverse sfatayim (lips) put far from thee.
4:25  Let thine eynayim look straight forward, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
4:26  Ponder the ma’agal (path) of thy raglayim, and let all thy drakhim be firm.
4:27  Turn not to the right hand nor to the left; remove thy regel from rah [T.N. Everyone in life has two paths to choose from just as Moshiach Tzidkeinu spoke of two gates, a wide one crowded with traffic and leading to destruction, and another one found by few but leading to life and redemption‖Mt 7:13-14].