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| [1]My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and lay up my commandments with thee; |
[1]My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments within thee, |
| [2]So that thou make thine ear attend unto wisdom, and thy heart incline to discernment; |
[2]And cause thine ears to hearken unto wisdom, and incline thine heart to understanding, |
| [3]Yea, if thou call understanding, and lift up thy voice for discernment; |
[3](For if thou callest after knowledge, and cryest for understanding: |
| [4]If thou seek her as silver, and search for her as for hid treasures; |
[4]If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for treasures, |
| [5]Then shalt thou understand the fear of 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇, and find the knowledge of God. |
[5]Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God. |
| [6]For 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇 giveth wisdom, out of His mouth cometh knowledge and discernment; |
[6]For the Lord giveth wisdom, out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding. |
| [7]He layeth up sound wisdom for the upright, He is a shield to them that walk in integrity; |
[7]He preserveth the state of the righteous: he is a shield to them that walk uprightly, |
| [8]That He may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of His godly ones. |
[8]That they may keep the ways of judgment: and he preserveth the way of his Saints) |
| [9]Then shalt thou understand righteousness and justice, and equity, yea, every good path. |
[9]Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity , and every good path. |
| [10]For wisdom shall enter into thy heart, and knowledge shall be pleasant unto thy soul; |
[10]When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge delighteth thy soul, |
| [11]Discretion shall watch over thee, discernment shall guard thee; |
[11]Then shall counsel preserve thee, and understanding shall keep thee, |
| [12]To deliver thee from the way of evil, from the men that speak froward things; |
[12]And deliver thee from the evil way, and from the man that speaketh froward things, |
| [13]Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness; |
[13]And from them that leave the ways of righteousness to walk in the ways of darkness: |
| [14]Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of evil; |
[14]Which rejoice in doing evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked, |
| [15]Who are crooked in their ways, and perverse in their paths; |
[15]Whose ways are crooked and they are lewd in their paths. |
| [16]To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the alien woman that maketh smooth her words; |
[16]And it shall deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger, which flattereth with her words. |
| [17]That forsaketh the lord of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God. |
[17]Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God. |
| [18]For her house sinketh down unto death, and her paths unto the shades; |
[18]Surely her house tendeth to death, and her paths unto the dead. |
| [19]None that go unto her return, neither do they attain unto the paths of life; |
[19]All they that go unto her, return not again, neither take they hold of the ways of life. |
| [20]That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous. |
[20]Therefore walk thou in the way of good men, and keep the ways of the righteous. |
| [21]For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the whole-hearted shall remain in it. |
[21]For the just shall dwell in the land, and the upright men shall remain in it. |
| [22]But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, and the faithless shall be plucked up out of it. |
[22]But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it. |