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¹ My sonne, if thou wilt receiue my wordes, and hide my commandements within thee,² And cause thine eares to hearken vnto wisdome, and encline thine heart to vnderstanding,³ (For if thou callest after knowledge, and cryest for vnderstanding:⁴ If thou seekest her as siluer, & searchest for her as for treasures,⁵ Then shalt thou vnderstand the feare of the Lord, and finde the knowledge of God.⁶ For the Lorde giueth wisdome, out of his mouth commeth knowledge and vnderstanding.⁷ He preserueth the state of the righteous: he is a shielde to them that walke vprightly,⁸ That they may keepe the wayes of iudgement: and he preserueth the way of his Saintes)⁹ Then shalt thou vnderstand righteousnes, and iudgement, and equitie, and euery good path.

¹⁰ When wisdome entreth into thine heart, and knowledge deliteth thy soule,¹¹ Then shall counsell preserue thee, and vnderstanding shall keepe thee,¹² And deliuer thee from the euill way, and from the man that speaketh froward things,¹³ And from them that leaue the wayes of righteousnes to walke in the wayes of darkenes:¹⁴ Which reioyce in doing euill, and delite in the frowardnesse of the wicked,¹⁵ Whose wayes are crooked and they are lewde in their paths.¹⁶ And it shall deliuer thee from the strange woman, euen from the stranger, which flattereth with her wordes.¹⁷ Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the couenant of her God.¹⁸ Surely her house tendeth to death, and her paths vnto the dead.¹⁹ All they that goe vnto her, returne not againe, neither take they holde of the wayes of life.²⁰ Therefore walke thou in the way of good men, and keepe the wayes of the righteous.²¹ For the iust shal dwell in the land, and the vpright men shall remaine in it.²² But the wicked shalbe cut off from ye earth, and the transgressours shalbe rooted out of it.