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| 1. | My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and wilt hide my commandments with thee, |
| 2. | That thy ear may hearken to wisdom: Incline thy heart to know prudence: |
| 3. | For if thou shalt call for wisdom, and incline thy heart to prudence: |
| 4. | If thou shalt seek her as money, and shalt dig for her as for a treasure: |
| 5. | Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and shalt find the knowledge of God. |
| 6. | Because the Lord giveth wisdom: and out of his mouth cometh prudence and knowledge. |
| 7. | He will keep the salvation of the righteous, and protect them that walk in simplicity. |
| 8. | Keeping the paths of justice, and guarding the ways of saints. |
| 9. | Then shalt thou understand justice, and judgment, and equity, and every good path. |
| 10. | If wisdom shall enter into thy heart, and knowledge please thy soul: |
| 11. | Counsel shall keep thee, and prudence shall preserve thee, |
| 12. | That thou mayst be delivered from the evil way, and from the man that speaketh perverse things: |
| 13. | Who leave the right way, and walk by dark ways: |
| 14. | Who are glad when they have done evil, and rejoice in most wicked things: |
| 15. | Whose ways are perverse, and their steps infamous. |
| 16. | That thou mayst be delivered from the strange women, and from the stranger, who softeneth her words: |
| 17. | And forsaketh the guide of her youth, |
| 18. | And hath forgotten the covenant of her God: for her house inclineth unto death, and her paths to hell. |
| 19. | None that go in unto her shall return again, neither shall they take hold of the paths of life, |
| 20. | That thou mayst walk in a good way: and mayst keep the paths of the just. |
| 21. | For they that are upright shall dwell in the earth, and the simple shall continue in it. |
| 22. | But the wicked shall be destroyed from the earth: and they that do unjustly shall be taken away from it. |