Proverbs 4 — LXXSB
4Verse 1Hear, you⌃ children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.Verse 2For I give you a good gift; forsake you⌃ not my law.Verse 3For I also was a son obedient to my father, and loved in the sight of my mother:Verse 4who spoke and instructed me, saying, Let our speech be fixed in your heart, keep our commandments, forget them not:Verse 5and do not neglect the speech of my mouth.+Verse 6And forsake it not, and it shall cleave to you: love it, and it shall keep you.Verse 8+Secure it, and it shall exalt you: honour it, that it may embrace you;Verse 9that it may give to your head a crown of graces, and may cover you with a crown of delight.Verse 10Hear, my son, and receive my words; and the years of your life shall be increased, that the resources of your life may be many.Verse 11For I teach you the ways of wisdom; and I cause you to go in right+paths.Verse 12For when you go, your steps shall not be straitened; and when you run, you shall not be distressed.Verse 13Take hold of my instruction; let it not go, —but keep it for yourself for your life.Verse 14Go not in the ways of the ungodly, neither covet the ways of transgressors.Verse 15In whatever place they shall pitch their camp, go not there; but turn from them, and pass away.Verse 16For they can’t sleep, unless they have done evil: their sleep is taken away, and they rest not.Verse 17For these live upon the bread of ungodliness, and are drunken with wine of transgression.Verse 18But the ways of the righteous shine like light; they go on and shine, until the day+be fully come.Verse 19But the ways of the ungodly are dark; they know not how they stumble.Verse 20My son, attend to my speech; and apply your ear to my words:Verse 21that your fountains may not fail you; keep them in your heart.Verse 22For they are life to those that find them, and+health to all their flesh.Verse 23Keep your heart with the utmost care; for out of these are the issues of life.Verse 24Remove from you a froward mouth, and put far away from you unjust lips.Verse 25Let your eyes look right on, and let your eyelids assent to just things.Verse 26Make straight paths for your feet, and order your ways aright.Verse 27Turn not aside to the right hand nor to the left, but turn away your foot from an evil way:+for God knows the ways on the right hand, but those on the left are crooked: and he will make your ways straight, and will guide your steps in peace.