### Darby's English Translation

Proverbs 3

## The Proverbs

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| # Chapter 4
| Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know intelligence;
| for I give you good doctrine: forsake ye not my law.
| For I was a son unto my father, tender and an only one in the sight of my mother.
| And he taught me, and said unto me, Let thy heart retain my words; keep my commandments and live.
| Get wisdom, get intelligence: forget [it] not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.
| Forsake her not, and she shall keep thee; love her, and she shall preserve thee.
| The beginning of wisdom [is], Get wisdom; and with all thy getting get intelligence.
| Exalt her, and she shall promote thee; she shall bring thee to honour when thou dost embrace her.
| She shall give to thy head a garland of grace; a crown of glory will she bestow upon thee.
| Hear, my son, and receive my sayings, and the years of thy life shall be multiplied.
| I will teach thee in the way of wisdom, I will lead thee in paths of uprightness.
| When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.
| Take fast hold of instruction, let [her] not go: keep her, for she is thy life.
| Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil [men]:
| avoid it, pass not by it; turn from it, and pass away.
| For they sleep not except they have done mischief, and their sleep is taken away unless they have caused [some] to fall.
| For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
| But the path of the righteous is as the shining light, going on and brightening until the day be fully come.
| The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
| My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.
| Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thy heart.
| For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
| Keep thy heart more than anything that is guarded; for out of it are the issues of life.
| Put away from thee perverseness of mouth, and corrupt lips put far from thee.
| Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
| Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be well-ordered.
| Turn not to the right hand nor to the left; remove thy foot from evil.

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