### Noah Webster Bible

Proverbs 3

## The Proverbs

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| # Chapter 4
| Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
| For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.
| For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.
| He taught me also, and said to me, Let thy heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.
| Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.
| Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.
| Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
| Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honor, when thou dost embrace her.
| She shall give to thy head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.
| Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.
| I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths.
| 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 cause some to fall.
| For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
| But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more to the perfect day.
| The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
| My son, attend to my words; incline thy ear to my sayings.
| Let them not depart from thy eyes; keep them in the midst of thy heart.
| For they are life to those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
| Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
| Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
| Let thy eyes look right on, and let thy eyelids look straight before thee.
| Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.
| Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.

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