Proverbs 4:1-16 ▼

1 Heare (O ye children) the fatherly exortacio, & take good hede, that ye maye lerne wysdome.

2 Yee I shal geue you a good rewarde, yf ye wil not forsake my lawe.

3 For when I myself was my fathers deare sonne, and tenderly beloued of my mother,

4 he taught me also, sayenge: let thine herte receaue my wordes, kepe my commaundementes, and thou shalt lyue.

5 Get the wysdome, get the vnderstondinge, forget not ye wordes of my mouth, & shreke not from them.

6 Forsake her not, and she shal preserue the: loue her, and she shal kepe the.

7 The chefe poynte of wysdome is, that thou be wyllynge to opteyne wysdome, and before all thy goodes to get the vnderstondynge.

8 Make moch of her, and she shal promote the: Yee yf thou embracest her, she shal brynge the vnto honoure.

9 She shal make the a gracious heade, and garnish the with ye crowne of glory.

10 Heare my sonne, and receaue my wordes, that the yeares of thy life maye be many.

11 I wil shewe the ye waye of wysdome, and lede the in the right pathes.

12 So that yf thou goest therin, there shal no straytnesse hynder the: and when thou runnest, thou shalt not fall.

13 Take fast holde of doctryne, let her not go: kepe her, for she is thy life.

14 Come not in the path of the vngodly, and walke not in the waye of the wicked.

15 Eschue it, & go not therin: departe asyde, & passe ouer by it.

16 For they can not slepe, excepte they haue first done some myschefe: nether take they eny rest, excepte they haue first done some harme.