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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 wilt 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 the most wicked things:

15 - Whose ways are perverse, and their steps infamous.

16 - That thou mayst be delivered from the strange woman, 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.