Chapter 4
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
ye
1.8 6.20-23 Psalms 34.11 1 Thessalonians 2.11,12
attend
2.1-5 5.1 7.4 8.32-36 19.20 22.17 Hebrews 2.1
For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.
good
8.6-9 22.20,21 Deuteronomy 32.2 Job 33.3 Psalms 49.1-3 John 7.16,17 1 Timothy 4.6 Titus 1.9
forsake
1 Chronicles 28.9 2 Chronicles 7.19 Psalms 89.30-32
For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.
2 Samuel 12.24,25 1 Kings 1.13-17 1 Chronicles 3.5 22.5 29.1 Jeremiah 10.23 Romans 12.16
He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.
He
22.6 Genesis 18.19 1 Chronicles 22.11-16 28.9 Ephesians 6.4 2 Timothy 1.5 3.15
Let
3.1 Deuteronomy 4.9 6.6 Psalms 119.11
keep
7.2 Leviticus 18.3-5 Isaiah 55.3 John 12.50 Hebrews 5.9
Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.
Get wisdom
1.22,23 2.2-4 3.13-18 8.5 17.16 18.1 19.8 23.23 James 1.5
neither
2 Chronicles 34.2 Job 23.11 Psalms 44.18 119.51,157
Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.
love
21,22 2.10-12 Ephesians 3.17 2 Thessalonians 2.10
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
Wisdom is
Ecclesiastes 7.12 9.16-18 Matthew 13.44-46 Luke 10.42 Philippians 3.8
with
16.16 21.6 Psalms 49.16-20 Ecclesiastes 2.4-9 4.8 Mark 8.36,37 Luke 12.20
get understanding
Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.
3.35 22.4 1 Samuel 2.30 1 Kings 3.5-13 Daniel 12.3
She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.
give
1.9 3.22 1 Timothy 2.9,10 1 Peter 3.4
a crown, etc
or, she shall compass thee with a crown of glory.
16.31 Isaiah 28.5 Hebrews 2.7-9 1 Peter 5.4 Revelation 3.21
Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.
my
8.10 19.20 Job 22.22 Jeremiah 9.20 John 3.32,33 1 Thessalonians 2.13 1 Timothy 1.15
the
I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths.
taught
4 Deuteronomy 4.5 1 Samuel 12.24 Ecclesiastes 12.9
led
8.6,9,20 Psalms 23.3 25.4,5 Acts 13.10
When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.
thou goest
6.22 2 Samuel 22.37 Job 18.7,8 Psalms 18.36
thou shalt
19 3.23 Psalms 91.11,12 119.165 Jeremiah 31.9 John 11.9,10 Romans 9.32,33 1 Peter 2.8 1 John 2.10,11
Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.
Take
3.18 23.23 Acts 2.42 11.23 1 Thessalonians 5.21 Hebrews 2.1 Revelation 2.13 12.11
let
Genesis 32.26 Song of Solomon 3.4 Luke 24.27-29 John 4.39-42
she
3.22 Deuteronomy 32.47 Ecclesiastes 7.12 John 6.68
Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.
1.10,15 2.11,12 9.6 13.20 Psalms 1.1 26.4,5 1 Corinthians 15.33
Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
5.8 6.5 Exodus 23.7 Job 11.14 22.23 Isaiah 33.15 Ephesians 5.11 1 Thessalonians 5.22
For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
1.16 Psalms 36.4 Isaiah 57.20 Micah 2.1 Luke 22.66 John 18.28 2 Peter 2.14
For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
9.17 20.17 Job 24.5,6 Psalms 14.4 Jeremiah 5.26-28 Ezekiel 22.25-29 Amos 8.4-6 Micah 3.5 6.12 Zephaniah 3.3 Matthew 23.14 James 5.4,5
But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
2 Samuel 23.4 Job 11.17 23.10 Psalms 84.7 Hosea 6.3 Zechariah 14.6,7 Matthew 5.14,16,45 John 8.12 2 Corinthians 3.18 Philippians 2.15 2 Peter 1.19 3.18 Revelation 21.23 22.5
The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
1 Samuel 2.9 Job 5.14 12.25 18.5,6,18 Isaiah 59.9,10 Jeremiah 13.16 23.12 Matthew 7.23 15.14 John 12.35 1 John 2.11
My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.
5.1 6.20,21 7.1 Psalms 78.1 90.12 Isaiah 55.3 Matthew 17.5
Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.
depart
in the
2.1 Psalms 40.8 *marg:
For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
life
health
Heb. medicine.
3.8 *marg:; 12.18 Jeremiah 33.6
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
Keep
22.5 23.19 28.26 Deuteronomy 4.9 Psalms 139.23,24 Jeremiah 17.9 Mark 14.38 Hebrews 12.15
with all diligence
Heb. above all keeping.
7 3.21 11.16 13.3 Ecclesiastes 5.13
for
Matthew 12.35 15.19 Mark 7.21-23 James 1.14,15
Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
Put
Job 11.14 Ezekiel 18.31 Ephesians 4.25-31 Colossians 3.8 James 1.21,26 1 Peter 2.1
a, etc
Heb. frowardness of mouth, and perverseness of lips.
Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
23.5,33 Job 31.1 Psalms 119.37 Matthew 6.22
Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.
Ponder
5.6 Psalms 119.59 Ezekiel 18.28 Haggai 1.5,7 Ephesians 5.15,17
let all thy ways be established
or, all thy ways shall be ordered aright.
Psalms 37.23 40.2 1 Thessalonians 3.13 2 Thessalonians 3.3 1 Peter 5.10
Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.
Turn
Deuteronomy 5.32 12.32 28.14 Joshua 1.7