[1]MY son, if you will receive my words and hide my commandments in your heart,[2]And incline your ear to wisdom and apply your heart to understanding,[3]Yea, if you cry after knowledge and lift up your voice to understanding,[4]If you seek it as silver, and search for it as for hidden treasure;[5]Then you will understand how to worship the LORD and find the knowledge of God.[6]For it is the LORD who gives wisdom; out of his mouth come knowledge and understanding.[7]He stores up hope for the upright; he helps those who walk without blemish.[8]He keeps the paths of justice, and preserves the ways of his saints.[9]Then you will understand righteousness and justice and the uprightness of all good ways[10]When wisdom enters into your heart and knowledge is pleasant to your soul.[11]Intelligence shall preserve you, and the understanding of the pious men shall deliver you;[12]That you might be delivered from evil ways, from men who speak perverse things,[13]Who forsake the path of uprightness to walk in the way of darkness;[14]Who rejoice to do evil and delight in the perverseness of evil things;[15]Men whose ways are crooked and whose paths are perverse.[16]Wisdom shall deliver you from a strange woman who flatters with her words,[17]Who has forsaken the mother of her youth and forgotten the covenant of her God.[18]For she has forgotten the threshold of her house and the way of her paths.[19]None who go to her return again, neither do they remember the path of life.[20]Therefore you must walk in the way of good men and keep the path of the righteous.[21]For the upright shall dwell in the land, and those who are unblemished shall remain in it.[22]But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth and the ungodly shall be rooted out of it