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## Proverbs 4:16-17 in Context (Verses 13–20 KJV)
 
 [13 ](/kjv/proverbs/4/13) Take fast hold of instruction; let *her* not go: keep her; for she *is* thy life.
 
 [14 ](/kjv/proverbs/4/14) ¶ Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil *men*.
 
 [15 ](/kjv/proverbs/4/15) Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
 
 [16 ](/kjv/proverbs/4/16) For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause *some* to fall.
 
 [17 ](/kjv/proverbs/4/17) For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
 
 [18 ](/kjv/proverbs/4/18) But the path of the just *is* as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
 
 [19 ](/kjv/proverbs/4/19) The way of the wicked *is* as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
 
 [20 ](/kjv/proverbs/4/20) ¶ My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.
 
[Proverbs 3](/kjv/proverbs/3) [Proverbs 5](/kjv/proverbs/5)

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