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My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;
(2:1)
So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, [and] apply thine heart to understanding;
(2:2)
Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, [and] liftest up thy voice for understanding;
(2:3)
If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as [for] hid treasures;
(2:4)
Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God
(2:5)
For the Lord giveth wisdom: out of his mouth [cometh] knowledge and understanding
(2:6)
He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: [he is] a buckler to them that walk uprightly
(2:7)
He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints
(2:8)
Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; [yea], every good path
(2:9)
When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;
(2:10)
Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:
(2:11)
To deliver thee from the way of the evil [man], from the man that speaketh froward things;
(2:12)
Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
(2:13)
Who rejoice to do evil, [and] delight in the frowardness of the wicked;
(2:14)
Whose ways [are] crooked, and [they] froward in their paths:
(2:15)
To deliver thee from the strange woman, [even] from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words;
(2:16)
Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God
(2:17)
For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead
(2:18)
None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life
(2:19)
That thou mayest walk in the way of good [men], and keep the paths of the righteous
(2:20)
For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it
(2:21)
But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it
(2:22)
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