Proverbs 4
4
Chapter 4
Choose what is good and right
1My children, listen to what your father teaches you. Listen carefully so that you understand what is right. 2My teaching will help you, so do not refuse it.
3-4My father taught me when I was a little boy. My mother loved me as her only child. My father said to me,
‘Think carefully about what I tell you.
If you obey my commands, you will live well.
5Learn to be wise and to understand things properly.
Do not forget my teaching or turn away from it.
6If you keep hold of wisdom, she will keep you safe.
She will protect you if you love her. #4:6 ‘She’. In the Book of Proverbs, wisdom is like a woman. See Proverbs 1:20.
7Learn to be wise, because wisdom is the most important thing to have.
Make sure that you learn to understand things well.
8 Respect wisdom as very valuable, then she will make you great.
If you make her your friend, she will give you honour.
9Wisdom will bless you, as if you are wearing a beautiful crown on your head.’
10So listen to me, my child, and accept my teaching. If you do, the years of your life will be many.
11I am teaching you to be wise, so that you will know the right way to live. 12As you walk through life, nothing will stop you. Even when you run, you will not fall.
13Keep hold of my teaching. Do not forget it. Keep it safe because it will give you a good life.
14Do not join with wicked or evil people. Do not do the things that they do. 15Keep away from them! Be sure to keep to your own good way of life.
16Wicked people have to do evil things. They cannot go to sleep unless they have been cruel to someone that day. 17Evil acts are their food. Violence is their drink.
18The life of righteous people is like the sun at dawn. It gets brighter and brighter until midday. 19But the life of wicked people is like a very dark road. They cannot even see what causes them to fall.
20My child, listen carefully to my teaching and to everything that I tell you. 21Never forget my words. Keep them safe in your mind. 22They will give true life to anyone who takes hold of them. They will give health to your whole body.
23Be very careful to keep your mind safe. The thoughts that you think make you the person that you are.
24Never tell lies or try to deceive other people.
25Look straight in front of you to see clearly where you are going. 26Decide carefully where you are going in life. Then you will be on a good, safe path. 27Do not walk off your path, to the right side or the left side. Keep away from everything that is evil.
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