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1 - My son, if thou dost accept my sayings, And my commands dost lay up with thee,

2 - To cause thine ear to attend to wisdom, Thou inclinest thy heart to understanding,

3 - For, if for intelligence thou callest, For understanding givest forth thy voice,

4 - If thou dost seek her as silver, And as hid treasures searchest for her,

5 - Then understandest thou fear of Jehovah, And knowledge of God thou findest.

6 - For Jehovah giveth wisdom, From His mouth knowledge and understanding.

7 - Even to lay up for the upright substance, A shield for those walking uprightly.

8 - To keep the paths of judgment, And the way of His saints He preserveth.

9 - Then understandest thou righteousness, And judgment, and uprightness--every good path.

10 - For wisdom cometh into thy heart, And knowledge to thy soul is pleasant,

11 - Thoughtfulness doth watch over thee, Understanding doth keep thee,

12 - To deliver thee from an evil way, From any speaking froward things,

13 - Who are forsaking paths of uprightness, To walk in ways of darkness,

14 - Who are rejoicing to do evil, They delight in frowardness of the wicked,

15 - Whose paths <FI>are<Fi> crooked, Yea, they are perverted in their ways.

16 - To deliver thee from the strange woman, From the stranger who hath made smooth her sayings,

17 - Who is forsaking the guide of her youth, And the covenant of her God hath forgotten.

18 - For her house hath inclined unto death, And unto Rephaim her paths.

19 - None going in unto her turn back, Nor do they reach the paths of life.

20 - That thou dost go in the way of the good, And the paths of the righteous dost keep.

21 - For the upright do inhabit the earth, And the perfect are left in it,

22 - And the wicked from the earth are cut off, And treacherous dealers plucked out of it!