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Proverbs 4 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:1 - Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:2 - For I give you a good gift; forsake ye not my law.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:3 - For I also was a son obedient to my father, and loved in the sight of my mother:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:4 - who spoke and instructed me, saying, Let our speech be fixed in thine heart, keep our commandments, forget them not:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:5 - and do not neglect the speech of my mouth.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:6 - And forsake it not, and it shall cleave to thee: love it, and it shall keep thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:8 - [fn]Secure it, and it shall exalt thee: honour it, that it may embrace thee;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:9 - that it may give unto thy head a crown of graces, and may cover thee with a crown of delight.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:10 - Hear, my 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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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:11 - For I teach thee the ways of wisdom; and I cause thee to go in right [fn]paths.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:12 - For when thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not be distressed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:13 - Take hold of my instruction; let it not go,—but keep it for thyself for thy life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:14 - Go not in the ways of the ungodly, neither covet the ways of transgressors.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:15 - In whatever place they shall pitch their camp, go not thither; but turn from them, and pass away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:16 - For they cannot sleep, unless they have done evil: their sleep is taken away, and they rest not.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:17 - For these live upon the bread of ungodliness, and are drunken with wine of transgression.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:18 - But the ways of the righteous shine like light; they go on and shine, until the day [fn]be fully come.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:19 - But the ways of the ungodly are dark; they know not how they stumble.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:20 - My son, attend to my speech; and apply thine ear to my words:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:21 - that thy fountains may not fail thee; keep them in thine heart.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:22 - For they are life to those that find them, and [fn]health to all their flesh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:23 - Keep thine heart with the utmost care; for out of these are the issues of life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:24 - Remove from thee a froward mouth, and put far away from thee unjust lips.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:25 - Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids assent to just things.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:26 - Make straight paths for thy feet, and order thy ways aright.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:27 - Turn not aside to the right hand nor to the left, but turn away thy foot from an evil way:
BES Footnotes
See Appendix - Alexandrian codex has: “Get wisdom, get understanding, forget not, nor decline from the words of my mouth.”
Lit. dig a trench about her, see Heb.
Gr. wheel-tracks, see chap 2:18; Heb. 12:13.
Gr. order itself aright.
Or, healing.
Heb. omits.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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