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fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData Hear, ye sons, the instruction of a father, And give attention to know understanding. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData For good learning I have given to you, My law forsake not. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData For, a son I have been to my father -- tender, And an only one before my mother. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData And he directeth me, and he saith to me: `Let thy heart retain my words, Keep my commands, and live. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData Get wisdom, get understanding, Do not forget, nor turn away From the sayings of my mouth. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData Forsake her not, and she doth preserve thee, Love her, and she doth keep thee. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData The first thing `is' wisdom -- get wisdom, And with all thy getting get understanding. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData Exalt her, and she doth lift thee up, She honoureth thee, when thou dost embrace her. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData She giveth to thy head a wreath of grace, A crown of beauty she doth give thee freely. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData Hear, my son, and receive my sayings, And years of life `are' multiplied to thee. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData In a way of wisdom I have directed thee, I have caused thee to tread in paths of uprightness. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData In thy walking thy step is not straitened, And if thou runnest, thou stumblest not. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData Lay hold on instruction, do not desist, Keep her, for she `is' thy life. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData Into the path of the wicked enter not, And be not happy in a way of evil doers. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData Avoid it, pass not over into it, Turn aside from it, and pass on. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData For they sleep not if they do not evil, And their sleep hath been taken violently away, If they cause not `some' to stumble. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData For they have eaten bread of wickedness, And wine of violence they drink. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData And the path of the righteous `is' as a shining light, Going and brightening till the day is established, |
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fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData The way of the wicked `is' as darkness, They have not known at what they stumble. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData My son, to my words give attention, To my sayings incline thine ear, |
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fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData Let them not turn aside from thine eyes, Preserve them in the midst of thy heart. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData For life they `are' to those finding them, And to all their flesh healing. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData Above every charge keep thy heart, For out of it `are' the outgoings of life. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData Turn aside from thee a froward mouth, And perverse lips put far from thee, |
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fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData Thine eyes do look straightforward, And thine eyelids look straight before thee. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData Ponder thou the path of thy feet, And all thy ways `are' established. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData Incline not `to' the right or to the left, Turn aside thy foot from evil! |
