Proverbs 4:7-15

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

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

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

¹⁰Hear, O my son, and receive my words, that years of life may be multiplied to thee.

¹¹I will shew thee the way of wisdom, I will lead thee by the paths of equity:

¹²Which when thou shalt have entered, thy steps shall not be straitened, and when thou runnest thou shalt not meet a stumblingblock.

¹³Take hold on instruction, leave it not: keep it, because it is thy life.

¹⁴Be not delighted in the paths of the wicked, neither let the way of evil men please thee.

¹⁵Flee from it, pass not by it: go aside, and forsake it.