|
|
| [1]My son, if thou dost accept my sayings, And my commands dost lay up with thee, |
[No book] |
| [2]To cause thine ear to attend to wisdom, Thou inclinest thy heart to understanding, |
[No book] |
| [3]For, if for intelligence thou callest, For understanding givest forth thy voice, |
[No book] |
| [4]If thou dost seek her as silver, And as hid treasures searchest for her, |
[No book] |
| [5]Then understandest thou fear of Jehovah, And knowledge of God thou findest. |
[No book] |
| [6]For Jehovah giveth wisdom, From His mouth knowledge and understanding. |
[No book] |
| [7]Even to lay up for the upright substance, A shield for those walking uprightly. |
[No book] |
| [8]To keep the paths of judgment, And the way of His saints He preserveth. |
[No book] |
| [9]Then understandest thou righteousness, And judgment, and uprightness -- every good path. |
[No book] |
| [10]For wisdom cometh into thy heart, And knowledge to thy soul is pleasant, |
[No book] |
| [11]Thoughtfulness doth watch over thee, Understanding doth keep thee, |
[No book] |
| [12]To deliver thee from an evil way, From any speaking froward things, |
[No book] |
| [13]Who are forsaking paths of uprightness, To walk in ways of darkness, |
[No book] |
| [14]Who are rejoicing to do evil, They delight in frowardness of the wicked, |
[No book] |
| [15]Whose paths [are] crooked, Yea, they are perverted in their ways. |
[No book] |
| [16]To deliver thee from the strange woman, From the stranger who hath made smooth her sayings, |
[No book] |
| [17]Who is forsaking the guide of her youth, And the covenant of her God hath forgotten. |
[No book] |
| [18]For her house hath inclined unto death, And unto Rephaim her paths. |
[No book] |
| [19]None going in unto her turn back, Nor do they reach the paths of life. |
[No book] |
| [20]That thou dost go in the way of the good, And the paths of the righteous dost keep. |
[No book] |
| [21]For the upright do inhabit the earth, And the perfect are left in it, |
[No book] |
| [22]And the wicked from the earth are cut off, And treacherous dealers plucked out of it! |
[No book] |