Proverbs 4:10-19 - The Right Path

¹⁰ Give ear, O my son, and let your heart be open to my sayings; and long life will be yours. ¹¹ I have given you teaching in the way of wisdom, guiding your steps in the straight way. ¹² When you go, your way will not be narrow, and in running you will not have a fall. ¹³ Take learning in your hands, do not let her go: keep her, for she is your life. ¹⁴ Do not go in the road of sinners, or be walking in the way of evil men. ¹⁵ Keep far from it, do not go near; be turned from it, and go on your way. ¹⁶ For they take no rest till they have done evil; their sleep is taken away if they have not been the cause of someone's fall. ¹⁷ The bread of evil-doing is their food, the wine of violent acts their drink. ¹⁸ But the way of the upright is like the light of early morning, getting brighter and brighter till the full day. ¹⁹ The way of sinners is dark; they see not the cause of their fall.