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¹ My child, if you will receive^[a] my sayings,
    and hide my commands with you,
² in order to incline your ear toward wisdom,
    then you shall apply your heart to understanding.
³ For if you cry out for understanding,^[b]
    if you lift^[c] your voice for insight,
⁴ if you seek her like silver
    and search her out like treasure,^[d]
5 then you will understand the fear of Yahweh,
    and the knowledge of God you will find.
⁶ For Yahweh will give wisdom;
    from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
⁷ For the upright, he stores^[e] sound judgment, a shield for those who walk uprightly,
⁸ in order to guard paths of justice
    and keep^[f] the way of his faithful ones.
⁹ Then you will understand righteousness and justice
    and uprightness—every good course—
¹⁰ for wisdom will enter your heart,
    and knowledge will be pleasing to your soul.^[g]
11 Discretion will watch over you;
    understanding will protect you,
¹² in order to deliver you from the way of evil,^[h]
    from a man who speaks devious things—
¹³ those who forsake the paths of uprightness
    to walk in ways of darkness,
¹⁴ those who are happy to do evil,
    for they delight in the deviousness of evil,
¹⁵ who are crooked in their ways,^[i]
    and devious in their paths;
¹⁶ in order to deliver you from a strange woman,
    from a foreign woman who flatters^[j] with her sayings,
¹⁷ she who forsakes the partner of her youth
    and has forgotten the covenant of her God,
¹⁸ for her house sinks to death,
    and to the dead^[k] are her paths.
¹⁹ Of all who go to her, none shall return,
    nor do they reach paths of life.
²⁰ So that you will walk on the road of those who are good,
    and the paths of those who are righteous you shall keep.
²¹ For those who are upright will dwell in the land,^[l]
    and those who are blameless^[m] will remain in it.
²² And those who are wicked will be cut off from the land,
    and those who are treacherous will be uprooted from it.