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| [1]My son, if thou wilt receive the utterance of my commandment, and hide it with thee; |
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| [2]thine ear shall hearken to wisdom; thou shalt also apply thine heart to understanding, and shalt apply it to the instruction of thy son. |
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| [3]For it thou shalt call to wisdom, and utter thy voice for understanding; |
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| [4]and if thou shalt seek it as silver, and search diligently for it 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 gives wisdom; and from his presence come knowledge and understanding, |
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| [7]and he treasures up salvation for them that walk uprightly: he will protect their way; |
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| [8]that he may guard the righteous ways: and he will preserve the way of them that fear him. |
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| [9]Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment; and shalt direct all thy course aright. |
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| [10]For if wisdom shall come into thine understanding, and discernment shall seem pleasing to thy soul, |
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| [11]good counsel shall guard thee, and holy understanding shall keep thee; |
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| [12]to deliver thee from the evil way, and from the man that speaks nothing faithfully. |
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| [13]Alas for those who forsake right paths, to walk in ways of darkness; |
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| [14]who rejoice in evils, and delight in wicked perverseness; |
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| [15]whose paths are crooked, and their courses winding; |
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| [16]to remove thee far from the straight way, and to estrange thee from a righteous purpose. My son, let not evil counsel overtake thee, |
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| [17]of her who has forsaken the instruction of her youth, and forgotten the covenant of God. |
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| [18]For she has fixed her house near death, and guided her wheels near Hades with the giants. |
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| [19]None that go by her shall return, neither shall they take hold of right paths, for they are not apprehended of the years of life. |
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| [20]For had they gone in good paths, they would have found the paths of righteousness easy. |
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| [21]For the upright shall dwell in the earth, and the holy shall be left behind in it. |
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| [22]The paths of the ungodly shall perish out of the earth, and transgressors shall be driven away from it. |
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