📖 Proverbs 4
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Heare (O ye children) the fatherly exortacio, & take good hede, that ye maye lerne wy?dome.
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Yee I shal geue you a good rewarde, yf ye wil not forsake my lawe.
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For when I myself was my fathers deare sonne, and tenderly beloued of my mother,
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he taught me also, sayenge: let thine herte receaue my wordes, kepe my commaundementes, and thou shalt lyue.
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Get the wy?dome, get the vnderstondinge, forget not ye wordes of my mouth, & shreke not from them.
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Forsake her not, and she shal preserue the: loue her, and she shal kepe the.
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The chefe poynte of wy?dome is, that thou be wyllynge to opteyne wy?dome, and before all thy goodes to get the vnderstondynge.
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Make moch of her, and she shal promote the: Yee yf thou embracest her, she shal brynge the vnto honoure.
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She shal make the a gracious heade, and garnish the with ye crowne of glory.
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Heare my sonne, and receaue my wordes, that the yeares of thy life maye be many.
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I wil shewe the ye waye of wy?dome, and lede the in the right pathes.
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So that yf thou goest therin, there shal no straytnesse hynder the: and when thou runnest, thou shalt not fall.
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Take fast holde of doctryne, let her not go: kepe her, for she is thy life.
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Come not in the path of the vngodly, and walke not in the waye of the wicked.
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Eschue it, & go not therin: departe asyde, & passe ouer by it.
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For they can not slepe, excepte they haue first done some myschefe: nether take they eny rest, excepte they haue first done some harme.
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For they eate the bred of wickednesse, and drike the wyne of robbery.
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The path of the rightuous shyneth as the light, and is euer brighter & brighter vnto the parfecte daye.
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But ye waye of the vngodly is as the darcknesse, wherin me fall, or they be awarre.
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My sonne, marcke my wordes, and enclyne thine eare vnto my saynges.
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Let them not departe from thine eyes, kepe them euen in the myddest of thine herte.
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For they are life vnto all those that finde the, and health vnto all their bodies.
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Kepe thine hert with all diligence, for there vpon hangeth life.
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Put awaye from the a frowarde mouth, and let the lippes of slaunder be farre from the.
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Let thine eyes beholde the thinge yt is right, & let thine eye lyddes loke straight before the.
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Podre the path of thy fete, so shal all yi wayes be sure.
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Turne not asyde, nether to the right hande ner to the lefte, but witholde thy fote from euell.