My son, if
thou wilt receive my words, and hide my
commandments with thee;
02 So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom,
and apply thine heart to understanding;
03 Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and
liftest up thy voice for understanding;
04 If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest
for her as for hid treasures;
05 Then shalt thou understand the fear of the
Lord, and find the knowledge of God.
06 For the Lord giveth wisdom: out of his mouth
cometh knowledge and understanding.
07 He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous:
he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
08 He keepeth the paths of judgment, and
preserveth the way of his saints.
09 Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and
judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.
10 When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and
knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;
11 Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding
shall keep thee:
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12 To deliver thee from the way of the evil man,
from the man that speaketh froward things;
13 Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in
the ways of darkness;
14 Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the
frowardness of the wicked;
15 Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in
their paths:
16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, even
from the stranger which flattereth with her
words;
17 Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and
forgetteth the covenant of her God.
18 For her house inclineth unto death, and her
paths unto the dead.
19 None that go unto her return again, neither
take they hold of the paths of life.
20 That thou mayest walk in the way of good men,
and keep the paths of the righteous.
21 For the upright shall dwell in the land, and
the perfect shall remain in it.
22 But the wicked shall be cut off from the
earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out
of it.
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