2My child, if you accept my words and treasure up my commandments within you,H1121H3947H561H6845H46872making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding;H7181H241H2451H5186H3820H83943if you indeed cry out for insight, and raise your voice for understanding;H7121H998H5414H6963H83944if you seek it like silver, and search for it as for hidden treasures—H1245H3701H2664H43015then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find 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 blamelessly,H6845H6845H8454H3477H4043H1980H85378guarding the paths of justice and preserving the way of his faithful ones.H5341H734H4941H8104H1870H26239Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path;H995H6664H4941H4339H2896H457010for wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;H2451H935H3820H1847H5276H531511prudence will watch over you; and understanding will guard you.H4209H8104H8394H534112It will save you from the way of evil, from those who speak perversely,H5337H1870H7451H376H1696H841913who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,H5800H734H3476H3212H1870H282214who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perverseness of evil;H8056H6213H7451H1523H8419H745115those whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways.H734H6141H3868H457016You will be saved from the loose woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words,H5337H2114H802H5237H2505H56117who forsakes the partner of her youth and forgets her sacred covenant;H5800H441H5271H7911H1285H43018for her way leads down to death, and her paths to the shades;H1004H7743H4194H4570H749619those who go to her never come back, nor do they regain the paths of life.H935H7725H5381H734H241620Therefore walk in the way of the good, and keep to the paths of the just.H3212H1870H2896H8104H734H666221For the upright will abide in the land, and the innocent will remain in it;H3477H7931H776H8549H349822but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.H7563H3772H776H898H5255
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