4:3. For I also was my father's son, tender, and as an only son in the sight of my mother: 4:4. And he taught me, and said: Let thy heart receive my words, keep my commandments, and thou shalt live. 4:5. Get wisdom, get prudence: forget not, neither decline from the words of my mouth. 4:6. Forsake her not, and she shall keep thee: love her, and she shall preserve thee. 4:7. The beginning of wisdom, get wisdom, and with all thy possession purchase prudence. 4:8. Take hold on her, and she shall exalt thee: thou shalt be glorified by her, when thou shalt embrace her. 4:9. She shall give to thy head increase of graces, and protect thee with a noble crown. 4:10. Hear, O my son, and receive my words, that years of life may be multiplied to thee. 4:11. I will shew thee the way of wisdom, I will lead thee by the paths of equity: 4:12. Which when thou shalt have entered, thy steps shall not be straitened, and when thou runnest, thou shalt not meet a stumblingblock. 4:13. Take hold on instruction, leave it not: keep it, because it is thy life. 4:14. Be not delighted in the paths of the wicked, neither let the way of evil men please thee. 4:15. Flee from it, pass not by it: go aside, and forsake it. 4:16. For they sleep not, except they have done evil: and their sleep is taken away unless they have made some to fall. 4:17. They eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of iniquity. 4:18. But the path of the just, as a shining light, goeth forwards, and increaseth even to perfect day. 4:19. The way of the wicked is darksome: they know not where they fall. 4:20. My son, hearken to my words, and incline thy ear to my sayings. 4:21. Let them not depart from thy eyes, keep them in the midst of thy heart: 4:22. For they are life to those that find them, and health to all flesh. 4:23. With all watchfulness keep thy heart, because life issueth out from it. 4:24. Remove from thee a froward mouth, and let detracting lips be far from thee. 4:25. Let thy eyes look straight on, and let thy eyelids go before thy steps. 4:26. Make straight the path for thy feet, and all thy ways shall be established. 4:27. Decline not to the right hand, nor to the left: turn away thy foot from evil. For the Lord knoweth the ways that are on the right hand: but those are perverse which are on the left hand. But he will make thy courses straight, he will bring forward thy ways in peace. Proverbs Chapter 5 An exhortation to fly unlawful lust, and the occasions of it. 5:1. My son, attend to my wisdom, and incline thy ear to my prudence, 5:2. That thou mayst keep thoughts, and thy lips may preserve instruction. Mind not the deceit of a woman. 5:3. For the lips of a harlot are like a honeycomb dropping, and her throat is smoother than oil. 5:4. But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword. 5:5. Her feet go down into death, and her steps go in as far as hell.