Proverbs 4:19–22

³⁵Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.

⁹¶ Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.

¹⁰We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.

¹²Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the Lord.

⁵Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

⁶The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.

⁹He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.

¹⁶Give glory to the Lord your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.

²⁵They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.

¹⁸He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

¹⁴They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.

¹⁰But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.

²³And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

¹³Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;

¹¹But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.

¹⁴Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

¹MY son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:

³Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

²⁰¶ My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

²¹Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.

¹MY son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.

¹GIVE ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

¹²So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

⁵While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.

²¹¶ My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:

³Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:

¹MY son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.

²Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.

⁸I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.

¹MY son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;

¹⁸There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.

⁶Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.

¹⁰Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.

⁸It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.

⁴He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.