Proverbs 6:20–22

¹CHILDREN, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

¹¶ Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

¹⁶Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

¹⁶Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother: and all the people shall say, Amen.

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.

³Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.

⁴Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:

¹¶ My sonne, keepe my words, and lay vp my commaundements with thee.

^2*Keepe my commandements, and liue: and my law as the apple of thine eye.

³Bind them vpon thy fingers, write them vpon the table of thine heart.

⁴Say vnto Wisedome, Thou art my sister, and call Understanding thy kinse woman,

⁸My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

⁹For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.

⁸My sonne, heare the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother.

⁹For they shall be ^†an ornament of grace vnto thy head, and chaines about thy necke.

²²Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

^22*Hearken vnto thy father that begate thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

¹⁸¶ If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:

¹⁸¶ If a man haue a stubborne and rebellious sonne, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that when they haue chastened him, wil not hearken vnto them:

¹¹There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.

¹¹ There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not blesse their mother.

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

^3*Let not mercy and trueth forsake thee: bind them about thy necke, write them vpon the table of thine heart.

³Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.

⁴Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:

³Bind them vpon thy fingers, write them vpon the table of thine heart.

⁴Say vnto Wisedome, Thou art my sister, and call Understanding thy kinse woman,

³Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.

³Forasmuch as yee are manifestly declared to be the Epistle of Christ ministred by vs, written not with inke, but with the spirit of the liuing God, not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.

⁸And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.

⁸And thou shalt binde them for a signe vpon thine hand, and they shalbe as frontlets betweene thine eyes.

¹⁶And it shall be for a token upon thine hand, and for frontlets between thine eyes: for by strength of hand the Lord brought us forth out of Egypt.

¹⁶And it shall be for a token vpon thine hand, and for frontlets betweene thine eyes. For by strength of hand the LORD brought vs foorth out of Egypt.

⁶Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.

⁶Forsake her not, and she shall preserue thee: loue her, and she shall keepe thee.

²¹Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.

²¹Let them not depart from thine eyes: keepe them in the midst of thine heart.

¹¹Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

¹¹Thy word haue I hidde in mine heart: that I might not sinne against thee.

²³Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not stumble.

²⁴When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.

^23*Then shalt thou walke in thy way safely, & thy foot shall not stumble.

²⁴When thou lyest downe, thou shalt not be afraide: yea, thou shalt lye downe, and thy sleepe shalbe sweet.

¹¹Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:

¹¹Discretion shall preserue thee, vnderstanding shall keepe thee:

²⁴Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellers.

²⁴Thy testimonies also are my delight: and ^†my counsellers.

⁹⁷O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.

⁹⁷¶ O How loue I thy Law! it is my meditation all the day.

³O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.

³O send out thy light & thy trueth; let them leade mee, let them bring mee vnto thy holy hill, and to thy Tabernacles.

¹⁴⁸Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word.

¹⁴⁸Mine eyes preuent the night watches: that I might meditate in thy word.

⁵⁴Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.

⁵⁴Thy statutes haue bin my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.

⁹Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.

⁹¶ Wherewithall shall a yong man cleanse his way? by taking heede thereto according to thy word.

⁴Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.

⁴Concerning the workes of men, by the word of thy lips, I haue kept me from the paths of the destroyer.

¹⁸After this shall he turn his face unto the isles, and shall take many: but a prince for his own behalf shall cause the reproach offered by him to cease; without his own reproach he shall cause it to turn upon him.

¹⁹Then he shall turn his face toward the fort of his own land: but he shall stumble and fall, and not be found.

²⁰Then shall stand up in his estate a raiser of taxes in the glory of the kingdom: but within few days he shall be destroyed, neither in anger, nor in battle.

²¹And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.

^18††After this shall he turne his face vnto the yles, and shall take many, but a prince for his own behalfe shall cause the reproch offred by him to cease without his owne reproch: he shall cause it to turne vpon him.

¹⁹Then he shall turne his face towards the fort of his owne lande: but he shall stumble and fall, and not bee found.

^20††Then shall stand vp in his estate a raiser of taxes in the glory of the kingdome, but within few dayes he shall be destroyed, neither in anger, nor in battell.

²¹And in his estate shall stand vp a vile person, to whom they shal not giue the honour of the kingdome: but hee shall come in peaceably, and obtaine the kingdome by flatteries.