✠ The Douay-Rheims Bible
✠ Proverbs 4
Chapters
PROV 4:1 Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend that you may know prudence.
PROV 4:2 I will give you a good gift, forsake not my law.
PROV 4:3 For I also was my father’s son, tender and as an only son in the sight of my mother:
PROV 4:4 And he taught me, and said: Let thy heart receive my words, keep my commandments, and thou shalt live.
PROV 4:5 Get wisdom, get prudence: forget not, neither decline from the words of my mouth.
PROV 4:6 Forsake her not, and she shall keep thee: love her, and she shall preserve thee.
PROV 4:7 The beginning of wisdom, get wisdom, and with all thy possession purchase prudence.
PROV 4:8 Take hold on her, and she shall exalt thee: thou shalt be glorified by her, when thou shalt embrace her.
PROV 4:9 She shall give to thy head increase of graces, and protect thee with a noble crown.
PROV 4:10 Hear, O my son, and receive my words, that years of life may be multiplied to thee.
PROV 4:11 I will shew thee the way of wisdom, I will lead thee by the paths of equity:
PROV 4:12 Which when thou shalt have entered, thy steps shall not be straitened, and when thou runnest thou shalt not meet a stumblingblock.
PROV 4:13 Take hold on instruction, leave it not: keep it, because it is thy life.
PROV 4:14 Be not delighted in the paths of the wicked, neither let the way of evil men please thee.
PROV 4:15 Flee from it, pass not by it: go aside, and forsake it.
PROV 4:16 For they sleep not except they have done evil: and their sleep is taken away unless they have made some to fall.
PROV 4:17 They eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of iniquity.
PROV 4:18 But the path of the just, as a shining light, goeth forwards and increaseth even to perfect day.
PROV 4:19 The way of the wicked is darksome: they know not where they fall.
PROV 4:20 My son, hearken to my words, and incline thy ear to my sayings.
PROV 4:21 Let them not depart from thy eyes, keep them in the midst of thy heart:
PROV 4:22 For they are life to those that find them, and health to all flesh.
PROV 4:23 With all watchfulness keep thy heart, because life issueth out from it.
PROV 4:24 Remove from thee a froward mouth, and let detracting lips be far from thee.
PROV 4:25 Let thy eyes look straight on, and let thy eyelids go before thy steps.
PROV 4:26 Make straight the path for thy feet, and all thy ways shall be established.
PROV 4:27 Decline not to the right hand, nor to the left: turn away thy foot from evil. For the Lord knoweth the ways that are on the right hand: but those are perverse which are on the left hand. But he will make thy courses straight, he will bring forward thy ways in peace.