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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.

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 departed spirits.

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.