Get understanding. Don't forget, neither swerve from the words of my mouth. 004:006 Don't forsake her, and she will preserve you. Love her, and she will keep you. 004:007 Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding. 004:008 Esteem her, and she will exalt you. She will bring you to honor, when you embrace her. 004:009 She will give to your head a garland of grace. She will deliver a crown of splendor to you." 004:010 Listen, my son, and receive my sayings. The years of your life will be many. 004:011 I have taught you in the way of wisdom. I have led you in straight paths. 004:012 When you go, your steps will not be hampered. When you run, you will not stumble. 004:013 Take firm hold of instruction. Don't let her go. Keep her, for she is your life. 004:014 Don't enter into the path of the wicked. Don't walk in the way of evil men. 004:015 Avoid it, and don't pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on. 004:016 For they don't sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall. 004:017 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence. 004:018 But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light, that shines more and more until the perfect day. 004:019 The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don't know what they stumble over. 004:020 My son, attend to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings. 004:021 Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the midst of your heart. 004:022 For they are life to those who find them, and health to their whole body. 004:023 Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life. 004:024 Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you. 004:025 Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you. 004:026 Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established. 004:027 Don't turn to the right hand nor to the left. Remove your foot from evil. 005:001 My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding: 005:002 that you may maintain discretion, that your lips may preserve knowledge. 005:003 For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil, 005:004 But in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword. 005:005 Her feet go down to death. Her steps lead straight to Sheol. 005:006 She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn't know it. 005:007 Now therefore, my sons, listen to me. Don't depart from the words of my mouth. 005:008 Remove your way far from her. Don't come near the door of her house, 005:009 lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel one;