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Yahweh Gives Wisdom

¹ My son, if you will ^(C1)receive my words
And ^(C2)treasure my commandments within you,

^2 (C1)To make your ear pay attention to wisdom,
Incline your heart to discernment;

³ For if you call out for understanding,
Give your voice for discernment;

⁴ If you seek her as ^(C1)silver
And search for her as for ^(C2)hidden treasures;

⁵ Then you will understand the ^(C1)fear of Yahweh
And find the knowledge of God.

⁶ For ^(C1)Yahweh gives wisdom;
From His mouth come knowledge and discernment.

⁷ He stores up sound wisdom for the upright,
A ^(C1)shield to those who walk in integrity,

⁸ To guard the paths of justice,
And He ^(C1)keeps the way of His holy ones.

⁹ Then you will understand ^(C1)righteousness and justice
And equity—every ^(C2)good track.

¹⁰ For ^(C1)wisdom will enter your heart
And ^(C2)knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;

¹¹ Discretion will ^(C1)keep you,
Discernment will guard you,

¹² To ^(C1)deliver you from the way of evil,
From the man who speaks ^(C2)perverse things;

¹³ From those who ^(C1)forsake the paths of uprightness
To walk in the ^(C2)ways of darkness;

¹⁴ Who are ^(C1)glad to do evil
And they rejoice in the perversity of evil;

¹⁵ Whose paths are ^(C1)crooked,
And who are devious in their tracks;

¹⁶ To deliver you from the ^(F1)(C1)strange woman,
From the ^(F2)(C2)foreign woman who flatters with her words;

¹⁷ Who forsakes the close ^(C1)companion of her youth
And forgets the ^(C2)covenant of her God;

¹⁸ For ^(C1)her house ^(F1)sinks down to death
And her tracks descend to the ^(F2)dead;

¹⁹ All ^(C1)who go to her will not return,
And they will not reach the ^(C2)paths of life.

²⁰ So that you will ^(C1)walk in the way of good men
And keep to the ^(C2)paths of the righteous.

²¹ For ^(C1)the upright will dwell in the land
And ^(C2)the blameless will remain in it;

²² But ^(C1)the wicked will be cut off from the land
And ^(C2)the treacherous will be ^(C3)torn away from it.