BibleInTonguesWEB
Proverbs 4
Read the full chapter first. Use the links below to keep moving through the surrounding book and related editorial pages.
- 1
Listen, sons, to a father’s instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;
- 2
for I give you sound learning. Don’t forsake my law.
- 3
For I was a son to my father, tender and an only child in the sight of my mother.
- 4
He taught me, and said to me: “Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.
- 5
Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don’t forget, and don’t deviate from the words of my mouth.
- 6
Don’t forsake her, and she will preserve you. Love her, and she will keep you.
- 7
Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding.
- 8
Esteem her, and she will exalt you. She will bring you to honor when you embrace her.
- 9
She will give to your head a garland of grace. She will deliver a crown of splendor to you.”
- 10
Listen, my son, and receive my sayings. The years of your life will be many.
- 11
I have taught you in the way of wisdom. I have led you in straight paths.
- 12
When you go, your steps will not be hampered. When you run, you will not stumble.
- 13
Take firm hold of instruction. Don’t let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.
- 14
Don’t enter into the path of the wicked. Don’t walk in the way of evil men.
- 15
Avoid it, and don’t pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on.
- 16
For they don’t sleep unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.
- 17
For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.
- 18
But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day.
- 19
The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don’t know what they stumble over.
- 20
My son, attend to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings.
- 21
Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the center of your heart.
- 22
For they are life to those who find them, and health to their whole body.
- 23
Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.
- 24
Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.
- 25
Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you.
- 26
Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established.
- 27
Don’t turn to the right hand nor to the left. Remove your foot from evil.
- 1
OID, hijos, la doctrina de un padre, y estad atentos para que conozcáis cordura.
- 2
Porque os doy buena enseñanza; no desamparéis mi ley.
- 3
Porque yo fuí hijo de mi padre, delicado y único delante de mi madre.
- 4
Y él me enseñaba, y me decía: Mantenga tu corazón mis razones, guarda mis mandamientos, y vivirás:
- 5
Adquiere sabiduría, adquiere inteligencia; no te olvides ni te apartes de las razones de mi boca;
- 6
No la dejes, y ella te guardará; ámala, y te conservará.
- 7
Sabiduría ante todo: adquiere sabiduría: y ante toda tu posesión adquiere inteligencia.
- 8
Engrandécela, y ella te engrandecerá: ella te honrará, cuando tú la hubieres abrazado.
- 9
Adorno de gracia dará á tu cabeza: corona de hermosura te entregará.
- 10
Oye, hijo mío, y recibe mis razones; y se te multiplicarán años de vida.
- 11
Por el camino de la sabiduría te he encaminado, y por veredas derechas te he hecho andar.
- 12
Cuando anduvieres no se estrecharán tus pasos; y si corrieres, no tropezarás.
- 13
Ten el consejo, no lo dejes; guárdalo, porque eso es tu vida.
- 14
No entres por la vereda de los impíos, ni vayas por el camino de los malos.
- 15
Desampárala, no pases por ella; apártate de ella, pasa.
- 16
Porque no duermen ellos, si no hicieren mal; y pierden su sueño, si no han hecho caer.
- 17
Porque comen pan de maldad, y beben vino de robos.
- 18
Mas la senda de los justos es como la luz de la aurora, que va en aumento hasta que el día es perfecto.
- 19
El camino de los impíos es como la oscuridad: no saben en qué tropiezan.
- 20
Hijo mío, está atento á mis palabras; inclina tu oído á mis razones.
- 21
No se aparten de tus ojos; guárdalas en medio de tu corazón.
- 22
Porque son vida á los que las hallan, y medicina á toda su carne.
- 23
Sobre toda cosa guardada guarda tu corazón; porque de él mana la vida.
- 24
Aparta de ti la perversidad de la boca, y aleja de ti la iniquidad de labios.
- 25
Tus ojos miren lo recto, y tus párpados en derechura delante de ti.
- 26
Examina la senda de tus pies, y todos tus caminos sean ordenados.
- 27
No te apartes á diestra, ni á siniestra: aparta tu pie del mal.
Context layers
Keep these closed by default and open them only when you want more context.
Share a small range via:
/en/web/proverbs/4/16-18
Or use the Passage link builder.