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¹ My sonne, if thou wylt receaue my wordes, and lay vp my commaundementes within thee,² That thou wylt encline thine eares vnto wisdome: applye thine heart then to vnderstandyng.³ For if thou cryest after wisdome, and cryest for knowledge:⁴ If thou seekest for her as for siluer, and searchest for her as for treasures:⁵ Then shalt thou vnderstand the feare of the Lorde, and finde the knowledge of God.⁶ For the Lorde geueth wisdome, out of his mouth commeth knowledge and vnderstandyng.⁷ He stirreth vp health for the righteous: and defendeth them that walke vprightly,⁸ That they may kepe the right path: and he preserueth the way of such as do serue him with godlinesse.⁹ Then shalt thou vnderstande righteousnesse, and iudgement, and equitie, yea and euery good path.

¹⁰ When wisdome entreth into thine heart, and thy soule deliteth in knowledge:¹¹ Then shall counsayle preserue thee, and vnderstandyng shall kepe thee,¹² That thou mayest be deliuered from the euyll way, and from the man that speaketh frowarde thynges:¹³ From such as leaue the wayes of righteousnesse, to walke in the wayes of darknesse:¹⁴ Which reioyce in doyng naught, and delite in the wickednesse of the euyll:¹⁵ Whose wayes are croked, and they frowarde in their pathes.¹⁶ That thou mayest be deliuered also from the straunge woman, and from her that is not thine owne, which geueth sweete wordes,¹⁷ Forsaketh the husbande of her youth, & forgetteth the couenaunt of her God.¹⁸ For her house is enclined vnto death, and her pathes vnto hell.¹⁹ All they that go in vnto her, come not agayne, neither take they holde of the way of lyfe.²⁰ Therfore walke thou in the way of such as be vertuous, & kepe the pathes of the righteous.²¹ For the iust shal dwell in the lande, and they that be perfect shall remayne in it.²² But the vngodly shall be cut of from the earth: and the wicked doers shalbe rooted out of it.