Proverbs 4:10-19 - The Right Path

¹⁰ Hear, my son, and receive my sayings, And years of life are multiplied to thee. ¹¹ In a way of wisdom I have directed thee, I have caused thee to tread in paths of uprightness. ¹² In thy walking thy step is not straitened, And if thou runnest, thou stumblest not. ¹³ Lay hold on instruction, do not desist, Keep her, for she is thy life. ¹⁴ Into the path of the wicked enter not, And be not happy in a way of evil doers. ¹⁵ Avoid it, pass not over into it, Turn aside from it, and pass on. ¹⁶ For they sleep not if they do not evil, And their sleep hath been taken violently away, If they cause not some to stumble. ¹⁷ For they have eaten bread of wickedness, And wine of violence they drink. ¹⁸ And the path of the righteous is as a shining light, Going and brightening till the day is established, ¹⁹ The way of the wicked is as darkness, They have not known at what they stumble.