Proverbs 4:1-9

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

4 Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend that you may know prudence.

² I will give you a good gift, forsake not my law.

³ For I also was my father's son, tender and as an only son in the sight of my mother:

⁴ And he taught me, and said: Let thy heart receive my words, keep my commandments, and thou shalt live.

⁵ Get wisdom, get prudence: forget not, neither decline from the words of my mouth.

⁶ Forsake her not, and she shall keep thee: love her, and she shall preserve thee.

⁷ The beginning of wisdom, get wisdom, and with all thy possession purchase prudence.

⁸ Take hold on her, and she shall exalt thee: thou shalt be glorified by her, when thou shalt embrace her.

⁹ She shall give to thy head increase of graces, and protect thee with a noble crown.