Septuagint Bible w/ Apocrypha LXX
New Revised Standard w/ Apocrypha NRSA
1 Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
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Listen, children, to a father's instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight;
2 For I give you a good gift; forsake ye not my law.
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for I give you good precepts: do not forsake my teaching.
3 For I also was a son obedient to father, and loved in the sight of mother:
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When I was a son with my father, tender, and my mother's favorite,
4 who spoke and instructed me, , Let our speech be fixed in thine heart, keep commandments, forget them not:
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he taught me, and said to me, "Let your heart hold fast my words; keep my commandments, and live.
5 and do not neglect the speech of my mouth.
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Get wisdom; get insight: do not forget, nor turn away from the words of my mouth.
6 And forsake it not, and it shall cleave to thee: love it, and it shall keep thee.
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Do not forsake her, and she will keep you; love her, and she will guard you.
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The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom, and whatever else you get, get insight.
8 Secure it, and it shall exalt thee: honour it, that it may embrace thee;
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Prize her highly, and she will exalt you; she will honor you if you embrace her.
9 that it may give unto thy head a crown of graces, and may cover thee with a crown of delight.
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She will place on your head a fair garland; she will bestow on you a beautiful crown."
10 Hear, son, and receive my words; and the years of thy life shall be increased, that the resources of thy life may be many.
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Hear, my child, and accept my words, that the years of your life may be many.
11 For I teach thee the ways of wisdom; and I cause thee to go in right paths.
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I have taught you the way of wisdom; I have led you in the paths of uprightness.
12 For when thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not be distressed.
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When you walk, your step will not be hampered; and if you run, you will not stumble.
13 Take hold of my instruction; let it not go, —but keep it for thyself for thy life.
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Keep hold of instruction; do not let go; guard her, for she is your life.
14 Go not in the ways of the ungodly, neither covet the ways of transgressors.
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Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not walk in the way of evildoers.
15 In whatever place they shall pitch their camp, go not thither; but turn from them, and pass away.
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Avoid it; do not go on it; turn away from it and pass on.
16 For they cannot sleep, unless they have done evil: their sleep is taken away, and they rest not.
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For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong; they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble.
17 For these live upon the bread of ungodliness, and are drunken with wine of transgression.
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For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.
18 But the ways of the righteous shine like light; they go on and shine, until the day be fully come.
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But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day.
19 But the ways of the ungodly are dark; they know not how they stumble.
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The way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know what they stumble over.
20 son, attend to my speech; and apply thine ear to my words:
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My child, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.
21 that thy fountains may not fail thee; keep them in heart.
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Do not let them escape from your sight; keep them within your heart.
22 For they are life to those that find them, and health to all flesh.
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For they are life to those who find them, and healing to all their flesh.
23 Keep thine heart with the utmost care; for out of these are the issues of life.
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Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.
24 Remove from thee a froward mouth, and put far away from thee unjust lips.
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Put away from you crooked speech, and put devious talk far from you.
25 Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids assent just .
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Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you.
26 Make straight paths for thy feet, and order thy ways aright.
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Keep straight the path of your feet, and all your ways will be sure.
27 Turn not aside to the right hand nor to the left, but turn away thy foot from an evil way: and he will make thy ways straight, and will guide thy steps in peace.
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Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your foot away from evil.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.