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[1] MY son, if you will receive my words and hide my commandments in your heart,
[2] And incline your ear to wisdom and apply your heart to understanding,
[3] Yea, if you cry after knowledge and lift up your voice to understanding,
[4] If you seek it as silver, and search for it as for hidden treasure;
[5] Then you will understand how to worship the LORD and find the knowledge of God.
[6] For it is the LORD who gives wisdom; out of his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
[7] He stores up hope for the upright; he helps those who walk without blemish.
[8] He keeps the paths of justice, and preserves the ways of his saints.
[9] Then you will understand righteousness and justice and the uprightness of all good ways
[10] When wisdom enters into your heart and knowledge is pleasant to your soul.
[11] Intelligence shall preserve you, and the understanding of the pious men shall deliver you;
[12] That you might be delivered from evil ways, from men who speak perverse things,
[13] Who forsake the path of uprightness to walk in the way of darkness;
[14] Who rejoice to do evil and delight in the perverseness of evil things;
[15] Men whose ways are crooked and whose paths are perverse.
[16] Wisdom shall deliver you from a strange woman who flatters with her words,
[17] Who has forsaken the mother of her youth and forgotten the covenant of her God.
[18] For she has forgotten the threshold of her house and the way of her paths.
[19] None who go to her return again, neither do they remember the path of life.
[20] Therefore you must walk in the way of good men and keep the path of the righteous.
[21] For the upright shall dwell in the land, and those who are unblemished shall remain in it.
[22] But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth and the ungodly shall be rooted out of it
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