2My son, if you will receive my sayings, And treasure my commandments within you,H1121H3947H561H6845H46872Make your ear attentive to wisdom, Incline your heart to understanding;H7181H241H2451H5186H3820H83943For if you cry for discernment, Lift your voice for understanding;H7121H998H5414H6963H83944If you seek her as silver, And search for her as for hidden treasures;H1245H3701H2664H43015Then you will discern the fear of the LORD, And discover the knowledge of God.H995H3374H3068H4672H1847H4306For the LORD gives wisdom; From His mouth [come] knowledge and understanding.H3068H5414H2451H6310H1847H83947He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; [He is] a shield to those who walk in integrity,H6845H6845H8454H3477H4043H1980H85378Guarding the paths of justice, And He preserves the way of His godly ones.H5341H734H4941H8104H1870H26239Then you will discern righteousness and justice And equity [and] every good course.H995H6664H4941H4339H2896H457010For wisdom will enter your heart, And knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;H2451H935H3820H1847H5276H531511Discretion will guard you, Understanding will watch over you,H4209H8104H8394H534112To deliver you from the way of evil, From the man who speaks perverse things;H5337H1870H7451H376H1696H841913From those who leave the paths of uprightness, To walk in the ways of darkness;H5800H734H3476H3212H1870H282214Who delight in doing evil, And rejoice in the perversity of evil;H8056H6213H7451H1523H8419H745115Whose paths are crooked, And who are devious in their ways;H734H6141H3868H457016To deliver you from the strange woman, From the adulteress who flatters with her words;H5337H2114H802H5237H2505H56117That leaves the companion of her youth, And forgets the covenant of her God;H5800H441H5271H7911H1285H43018For her house sinks down to death, And her tracks [lead] to the dead;H1004H7743H4194H4570H749619None who go to her return again, Nor do they reach the paths of life.H935H7725H5381H734H241620So you will walk in the way of good men, And keep to the paths of the righteous.H3212H1870H2896H8104H734H666221For the upright will live in the land, And the blameless will remain in it;H3477H7931H776H8549H349822But the wicked will be cut off from the land, And the treacherous will be uprooted from it.H7563H3772H776H898H5255
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