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¹ My son, if you accept my words^(C1)2 listening closely^(F1) to wisdom
and directing your heart to understanding;³ furthermore, if you call out to insight
and lift your voice to understanding,⁴ if you seek it like silver
and search for it like hidden treasure,^(C1)5 then you will understand the fear of the Lord
and discover the knowledge of God.⁶ For the Lord gives wisdom;
from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.^(C1)7 He stores up success^(F1) for the upright;
He is a shield for those who live with integrity^(C1)8 so that he may guard the paths of justice
and protect the way of his faithful followers.^(C1)9 Then you will understand righteousness, justice,
and integrity—every good path.¹⁰ For wisdom will enter your heart,
and knowledge will delight you.¹¹ Discretion will watch over you,
and understanding will guard you.^(C1)12 It will rescue you from the way of evil—
from anyone who says perverse things,¹³ from those who abandon the right paths
to walk in ways of darkness,^(C1)14 from those who enjoy doing evil^(C1)
and celebrate perversion,¹⁵ whose paths are crooked,^(C1)
and whose ways are devious.^(C2)16 It will rescue you from a forbidden woman,^(C1)
from a wayward woman with her flattering talk,^(C2)17 who abandons the companion of her youth^(C1)
and forgets the covenant of her God;¹⁸ for her house sinks down to death
and her ways to the land of the departed spirits.^(C1)19 None return who go to her;
none reach the paths of life.^(C1)20 So follow the way of the good,^(C1)
and keep to the paths of the righteous.²¹ For the upright will inhabit the land,
and those of integrity will remain in it;^(C1)22 but the wicked will be cut off from the land,^(C1)
and the treacherous ripped out of it.^(C2)