Proverbs 4:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.

'Till when, ye simple, do ye love simplicity? And have scorners their scorning desired? And do fools hate knowledge?

To cause thine ear to attend to wisdom, Thou inclinest thy heart to understanding,

O the happiness of a man who hath found wisdom, And of a man who bringeth forth understanding.

Understand, ye simple ones, prudence, And ye fools, understand the heart,

Why is this -- a price in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, And a heart there is none?

For an object of desire he who is separated doth seek, With all wisdom he intermeddleth.

Whoso is getting heart is loving his soul, He is keeping understanding to find good.

Truth buy, and sell not, Wisdom, and instruction, and understanding,

and if any of you do lack wisdom, let him ask from God, who is giving to all liberally, and not reproaching, and it shall be given to him;

and he doth that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah, and walketh in the ways of David his father, and hath not turned aside -- right or left.

On His step hath my foot laid hold, His way I have kept, and turn not aside,

We turn not backward our heart, Nor turn aside doth our step from Thy path.

The proud have utterly scorned me, From Thy law I have not turned aside.

For knowing wisdom and instruction, For understanding sayings of intelligence,

The heart of the intelligent getteth knowledge, And the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.