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¹ My son, if you will receive my words, And lay up my commandments with you;² So as to incline your ear to wisdom, And apply your heart to understanding;³ Yes, if you cry after discernment, And lift up your voice for understanding;⁴ If you seek her as silver, And search for her as for hidden treasures:⁵ Then you shall understand the fear of Yahweh, And find knowledge of God.⁶ For Yahweh gives wisdom; Out of his mouth [comes] knowledge and understanding:⁷ He lays up sound wisdom for the upright; [He is] a shield to those that walk in integrity;⁸ That he may guard the paths of justice, And preserve the way of his saints.⁹ Then you shall understand righteousness and justice, And equity, [yes], every good path.

¹⁰ For wisdom shall enter into your heart, And knowledge shall be pleasant to your soul;¹¹ Discretion shall watch over you; Understanding shall keep you:¹² To deliver you from the way of evil, From the men that speak perverse things;¹³ Who forsake the paths of uprightness, To walk in the ways of darkness;¹⁴ Who rejoice to do evil, And delight in the perverseness of evil;¹⁵ Who are crooked in their ways, And wayward in their paths:¹⁶ To deliver you from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that flatters with her words;¹⁷ That forsakes the friend of her youth, And forgets the covenant of her God:¹⁸ For her house inclines to death, And her paths to the dead;¹⁹ None that go to her return again, Neither do they attain to the paths of life:²⁰ That you may walk in the way of good men, And keep the paths of the righteous.²¹ For the upright shall dwell in the land, And the perfect shall remain in it.²² But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, And the treacherous shall be rooted out of it.