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| 1. | My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you; |
| 2. | So as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding; |
| 3. | Yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding; |
| 4. | If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures: |
| 5. | then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and find the knowledge of God{The Hebrew word rendered "God" is "Elohim."}. |
| 6. | For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding. |
| 7. | He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity; |
| 8. | that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his saints. |
| 9. | Then you will understand righteousness and justice, equity and every good path. |
| 10. | For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul. |
| 11. | Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you, |
| 12. | to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things; |
| 13. | who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness; |
| 14. | who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil; |
| 15. | who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths: |
| 16. | To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words; |
| 17. | who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God: |
| 18. | for her house leads down to death, her paths to the dead. |
| 19. | None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life: |
| 20. | that you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous. |
| 21. | For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it. |
| 22. | But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it. |