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