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Listen, friends, to some fatherly advice; sit up and take notice so you'll know how to live.
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I'm giving you good counsel; don't let it go in one ear and out the other.
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When I was a boy at my father's knee, the pride and joy of my mother,
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He would sit me down and drill me: "Take this to heart. Do what I tell you - live!
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Sell everything and buy Wisdom! Forage for Understanding! Don't forget one word! Don't deviate an inch!
Published by permission. Originally published by NavPress in English as THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language copyright 2002 by Eugene Peterson. All rights reserved.