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| [1]My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments within thee, |
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| [2]And cause thine ears to hearken unto wisdom, and incline thine heart to understanding, |
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| [3](For if thou callest after knowledge, and cryest for understanding: |
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| [4]If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for treasures, |
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| [5]Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God. |
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| [6]For the Lord giveth wisdom, out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding. |
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| [7]He preserveth the state of the righteous: he is a shield to them that walk uprightly, |
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| [8]That they may keep the ways of judgment: and he preserveth the way of his Saints) |
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| [9]Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity , and every good path. |
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| [10]When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge delighteth thy soul, |
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| [11]Then shall counsel preserve thee, and understanding shall keep thee, |
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| [12]And deliver thee from the evil way, and from the man that speaketh froward things, |
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| [13]And from them that leave the ways of righteousness to walk in the ways of darkness: |
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| [14]Which rejoice in doing evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked, |
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| [15]Whose ways are crooked and they are lewd in their paths. |
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| [16]And it shall deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger, which flattereth with her words. |
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| [17]Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God. |
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| [18]Surely her house tendeth to death, and her paths unto the dead. |
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| [19]All they that go unto her, return not again, neither take they hold of the ways of life. |
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| [20]Therefore walk thou in the way of good men, and keep the ways of the righteous. |
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| [21]For the just shall dwell in the land, and the upright men shall remain in it. |
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| [22]But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it. |
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