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¹ My son, if thou dost accept my sayings, And my commands dost lay up with thee,² To cause thine ear to attend to wisdom, Thou inclinest thy heart to understanding,³ For, if for intelligence thou callest, For understanding givest forth thy voice,⁴ If thou dost seek her as silver, And as hid treasures searchest for her,⁵ Then understandest thou fear of Jehovah, And knowledge of God thou findest.⁶ For Jehovah giveth wisdom, From His mouth knowledge and understanding.⁷ Even to lay up for the upright substance, A shield for those walking uprightly.⁸ To keep the paths of judgment, And the way of His saints He preserveth.⁹ Then understandest thou righteousness, And judgment, and uprightness -- every good path.

¹⁰ For wisdom cometh into thy heart, And knowledge to thy soul is pleasant,¹¹ Thoughtfulness doth watch over thee, Understanding doth keep thee,¹² To deliver thee from an evil way, From any speaking froward things,¹³ Who are forsaking paths of uprightness, To walk in ways of darkness,¹⁴ Who are rejoicing to do evil, They delight in frowardness of the wicked,¹⁵ Whose paths [are] crooked, Yea, they are perverted in their ways.¹⁶ To deliver thee from the strange woman, From the stranger who hath made smooth her sayings,¹⁷ Who is forsaking the guide of her youth, And the covenant of her God hath forgotten.¹⁸ For her house hath inclined unto death, And unto Rephaim her paths.¹⁹ None going in unto her turn back, Nor do they reach the paths of life.²⁰ That thou dost go in the way of the good, And the paths of the righteous dost keep.²¹ For the upright do inhabit the earth, And the perfect are left in it,²² And the wicked from the earth are cut off, And treacherous dealers plucked out of it!