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Proverbs 4

The Bible in Basic English BBE

1 Give ear, my sons, to the teaching of a father; give attention so that you may have knowledge:

2 For I give you good teaching; do not give up the knowledge you are getting from me.

3 For I was a son to my father, a gentle and an only one to my mother.

4 And he gave me teaching, saying to me, Keep my words in your heart; keep my rules so that you may have life:

5 Get wisdom, get true knowledge; keep it in memory, do not be turned away from the words of my mouth.

6 Do not give her up, and she will keep you; give her your love, and she will make you safe.

7 The first sign of wisdom is to get wisdom; go, give all you have to get true knowledge.

8 Put her in a high place, and you will be lifted up by her; she will give you honour, when you give her your love.

9 She will put a crown of grace on your head, giving you a head-dress of glory.

10 Give ear, O my son, and let your heart be open to my sayings; and long life will be yours.

11 I have given you teaching in the way of wisdom, guiding your steps in the straight way.

12 When you go, your way will not be narrow, and in running you will not have a fall.

13 Take learning in your hands, do not let her go: keep her, for she is your life.

14 Do not go in the road of sinners, or be walking in the way of evil men.

15 Keep far from it, do not go near; be turned from it, and go on your way.

16 For they take no rest till they have done evil; their sleep is taken away if they have not been the cause of someone's fall.

17 The bread of evil-doing is their food, the wine of violent acts their drink.

18 But the way of the upright is like the light of early morning, getting brighter and brighter till the full day.

19 The way of sinners is dark; they see not the cause of their fall.

20 My son, give attention to my words; let your ear be turned to my sayings.

21 Let them not go from your eyes; keep them deep in your heart.

22 For they are life to him who gets them, and strength to all his flesh.

23 And keep watch over your heart with all care; so you will have life.

24 Put away from you an evil tongue, and let false lips be far from you.

25 Keep your eyes on what is in front of you, looking straight before you.

26 Keep a watch on your behaviour; let all your ways be rightly ordered.

27 Let there be no turning to the right or to the left, keep your feet from evil.

Orthodox Jewish Bible OJB

1 Hear, ye banim, the musar (instruction, discipline) of an av, and attend to know binah (understanding).

2 For I give you lekach tov (good doctrine, good instruction), forsake ye not my torah.

3 For I was ben to avi, tender and yachid (an only child) before immi.

4 He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine lev retain my words; be shomer over my mitzvot, and live.

5 Acquire chochmah, acquire binah (understanding); forget it not; neither turn from the words of my peh (mouth).

6 Forsake her not, and she shall be shomer over thee; love her, and she shall protect thee.

7 Chochmah is the principal thing; therefore get chochmah, and with all thy getting get binah (understanding).

8 Exalt her, and she shall promote thee; she shall honor thee with kavod, when thou dost embrace her.

9 She shall give to thine head a garland of chen; an ateret (crown) of tiferet (glory) shall she present to thee.

10 Hear, O beni (my son), and receive my sayings; and thy shnot chayyim shall be many.

11 I have taught thee in the derech chochmah; I have led thee in ma’aglei yosher (right paths).

12 When thou goest, thy steps shall not be hindered; and when thou runnest, lo tikashel (thou shalt not stumble).

13 Take firm hold of musar; let her not go; guard her; for she is thy chayyim.

14 Enter not into the orach resha’im, and go not on the derech ra’im (road of the wicked).

15 Avoid it, travel al (not) on it, turn from it, and pass on.

16 For they sleep not, unless they have done evil; and their sheynah (sleep) is robbed, unless they cause some to fall.

17 For they eat the lechem of resha, and drink the yayin of chamasim (violences).

18 But the orach tzaddikim (path of the righteous) is as the bright light, that shineth brighter and brighter unto the full day.

19 The derech resha’im is as deep darkness; they know not at what they stumble.

20 Beni (my son), attend to my words; incline thine ozen unto my sayings.

21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; be shomer over them within thine lev.

22 For they are chayyim unto those that find them, and health to all their basar.

23 Set watch over and guard thy lev with all diligence; for out of it are the totze’ot chayyim (issues, wellsprings of life cf Mk 7:20-23).

24 Put away from thee a deceitful peh (mouth), and perverse sfatayim (lips) put far from thee.

25 Let thine eynayim look straight forward, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.

26 Ponder the ma’agal (path) of thy raglayim, and let all thy drakhim be firm.

27 Turn not to the right hand nor to the left; remove thy regel from rah [T.N. Everyone in life has two paths to choose from just as Moshiach Tzidkeinu spoke of two gates, a wide one crowded with traffic and leading to destruction, and another one found by few but leading to life and redemption?Mt 7:13-14].