Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
ASV
American Standard Version
Listen
, my sons, to
a
father’s
instruction ;
pay
attention
and gain
understanding .
Hear
, `
my '
sons, the
instruction of
a
father,
And attend
to
know
understanding :
For I give you sound
teaching
; do
not abandon
my directive
.
For I give you good
doctrine
; Forsake
ye
not my law
.
When
I was a son to
my father, tender and the
only child
of my mother ,
For
I was a son unto
my father, Tender and only beloved
in
the
sight
of my mother .
he taught me and said ,
“
Let your
heart lay
hold
of
my words; keep my commands
and you
will
live .
And
he taught me ,
and said unto
me:
Let thy
heart retain
my words; Keep my commandments,
and live ;
Get wisdom, get understanding; do
not
forget my
words
or
turn
from them.
Get wisdom, get understanding; Forget not,
neither
decline
from the
words
of
my
mouth;
Do
not
forsake wisdom
, and she will preserve you
; love her, and she will guard
you
.
Forsake her
not
, and she will preserve thee
; Love her, and she will keep
thee
.
Wisdom is supreme
; so
acquire
wisdom .
And
whatever
you
may
acquire
, gain
understanding.
Wisdom `
is '
the
principal
thing
; `therefore'
get
wisdom ;
Yea
, with
all
thy
getting
get
understanding.
Prize
her, and she will exalt
you
; if
you
embrace
her,
she will honor you
.
Exalt
her, and she will promote
thee
; She will bring
thee
to
honor ,
when
thou
dost
embrace
her
.
She will set
a garland
of grace on
your
head
; she
will
present
you
with
a crown of beauty. ”
She will give
to
thy
head
a chaplet
of grace; A crown of beauty will
she
deliver
to
thee
.
Listen
, my son, and receive my words,
and the years of your
life will
be many.
Hear
, O
my son, and receive my sayings;
And the years of thy
life shall
be many.
I will
guide
you
in the way of wisdom; I will
lead
you
on
straight
paths.
I have
taught
thee
in the way of wisdom; I have
led
thee
in
paths of
uprightness
.
When you
walk
, your
steps will
not be impeded
; when
you
run
, you
will
not stumble.
When thou
goest
, thy
steps shall
not be straitened
; And
if
thou
runnest
, thou
shalt
not stumble.
Hold on
to
instruction; do
not
let go .
Guard
it,
for it
is your
life.
Take
fast
hold of
instruction; let her
not
go :
Keep
her;
for she
is thy
life.
Do
not set
foot
on
the path of the wicked or
walk in the way of evildoers
.
Enter
not into
the path of the wicked ,
And
walk not
in the way of evil
men
.
Avoid it ;
do
not travel
on
it .
Turn from it and pass on by
.
Avoid it ,
pass
not by
it ;
Turn from it ,
and pass on.
For they cannot
sleep unless
they do evil; they
are
deprived
of
slumber
until
they make
someone
fall.
For they sleep not,
except
they do evil; And
their
sleep
is
taken
away,
unless
they cause
some
to
fall.
For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.
For they eat the bread of wickedness ,
And drink the wine of violence.
The path of the righteous is like
the first
gleam
of
dawn
, shining
brighter
and brighter
until
midday
.
But
the path of the righteous is as
the dawning
light
, That
shineth
more
and more
unto
the
perfect
day
.
But
the way of the wicked is like
the
darkest
gloom;
they do
not
know what makes
them
stumble.
The way of the wicked is as
darkness:
They know not
at
what they
stumble.
My son, pay
attention
to my words; incline your
ear to
my sayings.
My son, attend
to my words; Incline thine
ear unto
my sayings.
Do
not
lose
sight
of
them; keep them within
your
heart.
Let
them not
depart
from
thine
eyes
; Keep them in
the
midst
of
thy
heart.
For they are life to
those who
find them, and health to the
whole
body
.
For they are life unto
those that
find them, And health to all
their
flesh
.
Guard
your
heart with all diligence ,
for from
it flow
springs
of life.
Keep
thy
heart with all diligence ;
For out
of
it are
the
issues
of life.
Put away deception
from your
mouth ;
keep
your
lips from perverse
speech
.
Put away from thee
a
wayward
mouth ,
And
perverse
lips put
far
from thee
.
Let your
eyes look forward;
fix
your
gaze
straight ahead
.
Let thine
eyes look right
on,
And
let
thine
eyelids
look
straight before
thee
.
Make a
level path for
your
feet, and all your
ways will
be sure
.
Make level the
path of
thy
feet, And let
all thy
ways be established
.
Do
not swerve
to the right or
to the left ;
turn
your
feet
away
from evil.
Turn
not to the right hand
nor
to the left :
Remove
thy
foot
from evil.
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