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Proverbs 4:1-9 Parallel Bible Translations
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| 1 | My children, listen when your father corrects you. Pay attention and learn good judgment, | Hear, O sons, a father’s instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight, | Listen, my sons, to a father’s instruction; pay attention and gain understanding. | |
| 2 | for I am giving you good guidance. Don’t turn away from my instructions. | for I give you good precepts; do not forsake my teaching. | I give you sound learning, so do not forsake my teaching. | |
| 3 | For I, too, was once my father’s son, tenderly loved as my mother’s only child. | When I was a son with my father, tender, the only one in the sight of my mother, | For I too was a son to my father, still tender, and cherished by my mother. | |
| 4 | My father taught me, “Take my words to heart. Follow my commands, and you will live. | he taught me and said to me, “Let your heart hold fast my words; keep my commandments, and live. | Then he taught me, and he said to me, “Take hold of my words with all your heart; keep my commands, and you will live. | |
| 5 | Get wisdom; develop good judgment. Don’t forget my words or turn away from them. | Get wisdom; get insight; do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth. | Get wisdom, get understanding; do not forget my words or turn away from them. | |
| 6 | Don’t turn your back on wisdom, for she will protect you. Love her, and she will guard you. | Do not forsake her, and she will keep you; love her, and she will guard you. | Do not forsake wisdom, and she will protect you; love her, and she will watch over you. | |
| 7 | Getting wisdom is the wisest thing you can do! And whatever else you do, develop good judgment. | The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom, and whatever you get, get insight. | The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom. Though it cost all you have, get understanding. | |
| 8 | If you prize wisdom, she will make you great. Embrace her, and she will honor you. | Prize her highly, and she will exalt you; she will honor you if you embrace her. | Cherish her, and she will exalt you; embrace her, and she will honor you. | |
| 9 | She will place a lovely wreath on your head; she will present you with a beautiful crown.” | She will place on your head a graceful garland; she will bestow on you a beautiful crown.” | She will give you a garland to grace your head and present you with a glorious crown.” | |
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