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Wisdom is life and health                  Wisdom is everlasting

            Proverbs 4:20-27                                                       Proverbs 8:1-9

20. My son attend unto my words: incline                        1. Doth not wisdom cry? and

    thine ear unto my sayings.                                             understanding put forth

21. Let them not depart from thine eyes;                             her voice?

    keep them in the midst of thine heart.                        2. She standeth in the top

22. For they are life unto those that find                            of high places, by the way 

   them and health to all their flesh.                                    in the places of the paths.

23. Keep thine heart with all diligence;                           3. She crieth at the gates, at 

    for out of it are the issues of life.                                    the entry of the city, at the 

24. Put away from thee a froward mouth,                          coming in at the doors.

   and perverse lips put far from thee.                             4. Unto you, O men, call;          

25. Let thine eyes look right on, and let                             and my voice is to the sons

   thine eyelids look straight before thee.                            of man.

26. Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all                      5. O ye simple, understand

    thy ways be established.                                                 wisdom: and ye fools, be 

27. Turn not to the right hand nor to the left                       ye of an understanding

   remove thy foot from evil.                                                  heart.

                                                                                        6. Hear, for I will speak of 

                                                                                            excellent things; and the 

                                                                                            opening of my lips shall be

                                                                                            right things.

                                                                                          7. For my mouth shall 

                                                                                              speak truth; and wicked-

                                                                                              ness is an abomination

                                                                                              to my lips.

                                                                                           8. All the words of my  

                                                                                             mouth are in righteous-

                                                                                             ness; there  is nothing  

                                                                                             froward or perverse in

                                                                                             them.

                                                                                            9. They are plain to him

                                                                                               that understandeth, and

                                                                                               right to them that find

                                                                                               knowledge.