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Proverbs
Offers wisdom and advice on how to live a good and meaningful life.
Chapter 4
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1
KJV:
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
Geneva:
Heare, O ye children, the instruction of a father, and giue eare to learne vnderstanding.
2
KJV:
For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.
Geneva:
For I doe giue you a good doctrine: therefore forsake yee not my lawe.
3
KJV:
For I was my father’s son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.
Geneva:
For I was my fathers sonne, tender and deare in the sight of my mother,
4
KJV:
He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.
Geneva:
When he taught me, and sayde vnto me, Let thine heart holde fast my woordes: keepe my commandements, and thou shalt liue.
5
KJV:
Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.
Geneva:
Get wisedom: get vnderstading: forget not, neither decline from the woordes of my mouth.
6
KJV:
Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.
Geneva:
Forsake her not, and shee shall keepe thee: loue her and shee shall preserue thee.
7
KJV:
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
Geneva:
Wisedome is the beginning: get wisedome therefore: and aboue all thy possession get vnderstanding.
8
KJV:
Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.
Geneva:
Exalt her, and she shall exalt thee: she shall bring thee to honour, if thou embrace her.
9
KJV:
She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.
Geneva:
She shal giue a comely ornamet vnto thine head, yea, she shal giue thee a crowne of glorie.
10
KJV:
Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.
Geneva:
Heare, my sonne, & receiue my wordes, and the yeeres of thy life shalbe many.
11
KJV:
I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths.
Geneva:
I haue taught thee in ye way of wisedom, and led thee in the pathes of righteousnesse.
12
KJV:
When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.
Geneva:
Whe thou goest, thy gate shal not be strait, and when thou runnest, thou shalt not fall.
13
KJV:
Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.
Geneva:
Take holde of instruction, and leaue not: keepe her, for shee is thy life.
14
KJV:
Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.
Geneva:
Enter not into the way of the wicked, and walke not in the way of euill men.
15
KJV:
Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
Geneva:
Auoide it, and goe not by it: turne from it, and passe by.
16
KJV:
For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
Geneva:
For they can not sleepe, except they haue done euill, and their sleepe departeth except they cause some to fall.
17
KJV:
For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
Geneva:
For they eate the breade of wickednesse, and drinke the wine of violence.
18
KJV:
But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Geneva:
But the way of the righteous shineth as the light, that shineth more and more vnto the perfite day.
19
KJV:
The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
Geneva:
The way of the wicked is as the darkenes: they knowe not wherein they shall fall.
20
KJV:
My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.
Geneva:
My sonne, hearken vnto my wordes, incline thine eare vnto my sayings.
21
KJV:
Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.
Geneva:
Let them not depart from thine eyes, but keepe them in the middes of thine heart.
22
KJV:
For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
Geneva:
For they are life vnto those that find them, and health vnto all their flesh.
23
KJV:
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
Geneva:
Keepe thine heart with all diligence: for thereout commeth life.
24
KJV:
Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
Geneva:
Put away from thee a froward mouth, and put wicked lippes farre from thee.
25
KJV:
Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
Geneva:
Let thine eyes beholde the right, and let thine eyeliddes direct thy way before thee.
26
KJV:
Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.
Geneva:
Ponder the path of thy feete, and let all thy waies be ordred aright.
27
KJV:
Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.
Geneva:
Turne not to the right hande, nor to the left, but remooue thy foote from euill.
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