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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Hear, O sons, a father’s instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight, |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2for I give you good precepts; do not forsake my teaching. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3When I was a son with my father, tender, the only one in the sight of my mother, |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4he taught me and said to me, “Let your heart hold fast my words; keep my commandments, and live. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Get wisdom; get insight; do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Do not forsake her, and she will keep you; love her, and she will guard you. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom, and whatever you get, get insight. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Prize her highly, and she will exalt you; she will honor you if you embrace her. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9She will place on your head a graceful garland; she will bestow on you a beautiful crown.” |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Hear, my son, and accept my words, that the years of your life may be many. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11I have taught you the way of wisdom; I have led you in the paths of uprightness. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12When you walk, your step will not be hampered, and if you run, you will not stumble. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Keep hold of instruction; do not let go; guard her, for she is your life. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not walk in the way of the evil. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Avoid it; do not go on it; turn away from it and pass on. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong; they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19The way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know over what they stumble. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Let them not escape from your sight; keep them within your heart. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22For they are life to those who find them, and healing to all their flesh. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Put away from you crooked speech, and put devious talk far from you. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Ponder the path of your feet; then all your ways will be sure. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your foot away from evil. |
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