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[1]Myson, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments within thee,
[2]Andcause thine ears to hearken unto wisdom, and incline thine heart to understanding,
[3](Forif thou callest after knowledge, and cryest for understanding:
[4]Ifthou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for treasures,
[5]Thenshalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.
[6]Forthe Lord giveth wisdom, out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.
[7]Hepreserveth the state of the righteous: he is a shield to them that walk uprightly,
[8]Thatthey may keep the ways of judgment: and he preserveth the way of his Saints)
[9]Thenshalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity , and every good path.
[10]Whenwisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge delighteth thy soul,
[11]Thenshall counsel preserve thee, and understanding shall keep thee,
[12]Anddeliver thee from the evil way, and from the man that speaketh froward things,
[13]Andfrom them that leave the ways of righteousness to walk in the ways of darkness:
[14]Whichrejoice in doing evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked,
[15]Whoseways are crooked and they are lewd in their paths.
[16]Andit shall deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger, which flattereth with her words.
[17]Whichforsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
[18]Surelyher house tendeth to death, and her paths unto the dead.
[19]Allthey that go unto her, return not again, neither take they hold of the ways of life.
[20]Thereforewalk thou in the way of good men, and keep the ways of the righteous.
[21]Forthe just shall dwell in the land, and the upright men shall remain in it.
[22]Butthe wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
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