Read the Bible

¹ My child, listen to what I say
    and remember what I command you.
² Listen carefully to wisdom;
    set your mind on understanding.
³ Cry out for wisdom,
    and beg for understanding.
⁴ Search for it like silver,
    and hunt for it like hidden treasure.
⁵ Then you will understand respect for the Lord,
    and you will find that you know God.
⁶ Only the Lord gives wisdom;
    he gives knowledge and understanding.
⁷ He stores up wisdom for those who are honest.
    Like a shield he protects the innocent.
⁸ He makes sure that justice is done,
    and he protects those who are loyal to him.

⁹ Then you will understand what is honest and fair
    and what is the good and right thing to do.
¹⁰ Wisdom will come into your mind,
    and knowledge will be pleasing to you.
¹¹ Good sense will protect you;
    understanding will guard you.
¹² It will keep you from the wicked,
    from those whose words are bad,
¹³ who don't do what is right
    but what is evil.
¹⁴ They enjoy doing wrong
    and are happy to do what is crooked and evil.
¹⁵ What they do is wrong,
    and their ways are dishonest.

¹⁶ It will save you from the unfaithful wife
    who tries to lead you into adultery with pleasing words.
¹⁷ She leaves the husband she married when she was young.
    She ignores the promise she made before God.
¹⁸ Her house is on the way to death;
    those who took that path are now all dead.
¹⁹ No one who goes to her comes back
    or walks the path of life again.

²⁰ But wisdom will help you be good
    and do what is right.
²¹ Those who are honest will live in the land,
    and those who are innocent will remain in it.
²² But the wicked will be removed from the land,
    and the unfaithful will be thrown out of it.