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Children, hearken to the discipline of the Father, and listen to know understanding.
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For I gave you good teaching; forsake not My instruction.
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For I was a son to my father, a tender one and an only one before my mother.
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And he instructed me and said to me, "May your heart draw near to my words; keep my commandments and live.
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Acquire wisdom, acquire understanding; do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth.
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Do not forsake her, and she will preserve you; love her and she will guard you.
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The beginning of wisdom [is to] acquire wisdom, and with all your possession acquire understanding.
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Search for her, and she will exalt you; she will honor you when you embrace her.
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She will give your head a wreath of grace; she will transmit to you a crown of glory.
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Hearken, my son, and take my words, and years of life will increase for you.
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In the way of wisdom I instructed you; I led you in the paths of uprightness.
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When you walk, your step will not be straitened, and if you run, you will not stumble.
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Take fast hold of discipline, do not let it loose; guard it, for it is your life.
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You shall not come in the way of the wicked, and do not walk in the way of the evil.
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Avoid it, do not pass through it; turn away from it and pass.
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For they will not sleep if they do not commit evil, and their sleep will be robbed away if they do not cause stumbling.
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For they eat the bread of wickedness, and they drink the wine of violence.
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But the way of the righteous is like the light of dawn; it shines ever brighter until the day is perfect.
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The way of the wicked is like pitch darkness; they do not know on what they stumble.
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My son, hearken to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.
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Let them not depart from your eyes; guard them within your heart,
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for they are life for those who find them, and for all his flesh a healing.
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From every interdict guard your heart, for the issues of life [come] out of it.
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Take crooked speech away from yourself, and put devious lips far away from you.
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Let your eyes look forward, and let your eyelids look straight ahead of you.
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Weigh the path of your feet, and all your ways will be established.
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Turn neither right nor left; keep your feet from evil.
