Proverbs - John Cunyus

Proverbs, 26
Chapter 4
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A Mother’s Teaching
4:1 audite filii disciplinam patris et adtendite ut sciatis prudentiam
Hear the discipline
of your father, my son,
and attend
to the learning of prudence.
4:2 donum bonum tribuam vobis legem meam ne derelinquatis
I will give you
a good gift.
Do not abandon
my law,
4:3 nam et ego filius fui patris mei tenellus et unigenitus coram matre mea
for I also was
a son of my father,
tender and only child
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before my mother ,
4:4 et docebat me atque dicebat suscipiat verba mea cor tuum custodi praecepta mea et vives
and she taught me,
and also said to me,
‘Accept my words
and guard my precepts,
that you may live.
4:5 posside sapientiam posside prudentiam ne obliviscaris neque declines a verbis oris mei
‘Possess wisdom,
possess prudence,
and neither forget
nor turn away
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See 2 Samuel 11 for the story of Solomon’s mother, Bathsheba.