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¹ My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;² So that thou incline thy ear to wisdom, [and] apply thy heart to understanding;³ Yes, if thou criest after knowledge, [and] liftest up thy voice for understanding;⁴ If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as [for] hid treasures;⁵ Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.⁶ For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth [cometh] knowledge and understanding.⁷ He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: [he is] a buckler to them that walk uprightly.⁸ He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.⁹ Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; [and] every good path.

¹⁰ When wisdom entereth into thy heart, and knowledge is pleasant to thy soul;¹¹ Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:¹² To deliver thee from the way of the evil [man], from the man that speaketh froward things;¹³ Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;¹⁴ Who rejoice to do evil, [and] delight in the frowardness of the wicked;¹⁵ Whose ways [are] crooked, and [they] froward in their paths:¹⁶ To deliver thee from the strange woman, [even] from the stranger [who] flattereth with her words;¹⁷ Who forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.¹⁸ For her house inclineth to death, and her paths to the dead.¹⁹ None that go to her return again, neither do they take hold of the paths of life.²⁰ That thou mayest 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 earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.