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Proverbs 2
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Moral Benefits of Wisdom

2My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you,H1121H3947H561H6845H4687 2turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding,H7181H241H2451H5186H3820H8394 3and if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding,H7121H998H5414H6963H8394 4and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure,H1245H3701H2664H4301 5then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God.H995H3374H3068H4672H1847H430 6For the LORD gives wisdom, and from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.H3068H5414H2451H6310H1847H8394 7He holds victory in store for the upright, he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless,H6845H6845H8454H3477H4043H1980H8537 8for he guards the course of the just and protects the way of his faithful ones.H5341H734H4941H8104H1870H2623 9Then you will understand what is right and just and fair—every good path.H995H6664H4941H4339H2896H4570 10For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.H2451H935H3820H1847H5276H5315 11Discretion will protect you, and understanding will guard you.H4209H8104H8394H5341 12Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men, from men whose words are perverse,H5337H1870H7451H376H1696H8419 13who leave the straight paths to walk in dark ways,H5800H734H3476H3212H1870H2822 14who delight in doing wrong and rejoice in the perverseness of evil,H8056H6213H7451H1523H8419H7451 15whose paths are crooked and who are devious in their ways.H734H6141H3868H4570 16It will save you also from the adulteress, from the wayward wife with her seductive words,H5337H2114H802H5237H2505H561 17who has left the partner of her youth and ignored the covenant she made before God.H5800H441H5271H7911H1285H430 18For her house leads down to death and her paths to the spirits of the dead.H1004H7743H4194H4570H7496 19None who go to her return or attain the paths of life.H935H7725H5381H734H2416 20Thus you will walk in the ways of good men and keep to the paths of the righteous.H3212H1870H2896H8104H734H6662 21For the upright will live in the land, and the blameless will remain in it;H3477H7931H776H8549H3498 22but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be torn from it.H7563H3772H776H898H5255


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