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1 - Listen, sons, to a father’s instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;

2 - for I give you sound learning. Don’t forsake my law.

3 - For I was a son to my father, tender and an only child in the sight of my mother.

4 - He taught me, and said to me: “Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.

5 - Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don’t forget, neither swerve from the words of my mouth.

6 - Don’t forsake her, and she will preserve you. Love her, and she will keep you.

7 - Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding.

8 - Esteem her, and she will exalt you. She will bring you to honor, when you embrace her.

9 - She will give to your head a garland of grace. She will deliver a crown of splendor to you.”

10 - Listen, my son, and receive my sayings. The years of your life will be many.

11 - I have taught you in the way of wisdom. I have led you in straight paths.

12 - When you go, your steps will not be hampered. When you run, you will not stumble.

13 - Take firm hold of instruction. Don’t let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.

14 - Don’t enter into the path of the wicked. Don’t walk in the way of evil men.

15 - Avoid it, and don’t pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on.

16 - For they don’t sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

17 - For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

18 - But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light, that shines more and more until the perfect day.

19 - The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don’t know what they stumble over.

20 - My son, attend to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings.

21 - Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the midst of your heart.

22 - For they are life to those who find them, and health to their whole body.

23 - Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

24 - Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.

25 - Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you.

26 - Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established.

27 - Don’t turn to the right hand nor to the left. Remove your foot from evil.