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¹ My child, if you receive my words,
and store up my commands within you,
² by making your ear attentive to wisdom,
and by turning your heart to understanding,
³ indeed, if you call out for discernment—
raise your voice for understanding—
⁴ if you seek it like silver,
and search for it like hidden treasure,
⁵ then you will understand how to fear the Lord,
and you will discover knowledge about God.
⁶ For the Lord gives wisdom,
and from his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
⁷ He stores up effective counsel for the upright,
and is like a shield for those who live with integrity,
⁸ to guard the paths of the righteous
and to protect the way of his pious ones.
⁹ Then you will understand righteousness and justice
and equity—every good way.
¹⁰ For wisdom will enter your heart,
and moral knowledge will be attractive to you.
¹¹ Discretion will protect you,
understanding will guard you,
¹² to deliver you from the way of the wicked,
from those speaking perversity,
¹³ who leave the upright paths
to walk on the dark ways,
¹⁴ who delight in doing evil,
they rejoice in perverse evil;
¹⁵ whose paths are morally crooked,
and who are devious in their ways;
¹⁶ to deliver you from the adulteress,
from the sexually loose woman who speaks flattering words;
¹⁷ who leaves the husband from her younger days,
and forgets her marriage covenant made before God.
¹⁸ For her house sinks down to death,
and her paths lead to the place of the departed spirits.
¹⁹ None who go in to her will return,
nor will they reach the paths of life.
²⁰ So you will walk in the way of good people,
and will keep on the paths of the righteous.
²¹ For the upright will reside in the land,
and those with integrity will remain in it,
²² but the wicked will be removed from the land,
and the treacherous will be torn away from it.