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| [1]My son, if thou dost accept my sayings, And my commands dost lay up with thee, |
[1]My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments within thee, |
| [2]To cause thine ear to attend to wisdom, Thou inclinest thy heart to understanding, |
[2]And cause thine ears to hearken unto wisdom, and incline thine heart to understanding, |
| [3]For, if for intelligence thou callest, For understanding givest forth thy voice, |
[3](For if thou callest after knowledge, and cryest for understanding: |
| [4]If thou dost seek her as silver, And as hid treasures searchest for her, |
[4]If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for treasures, |
| [5]Then understandest thou fear of Jehovah, And knowledge of God thou findest. |
[5]Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God. |
| [6]For Jehovah giveth wisdom, From His mouth knowledge and understanding. |
[6]For the Lord giveth wisdom, out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding. |
| [7]Even to lay up for the upright substance, A shield for those walking uprightly. |
[7]He preserveth the state of the righteous: he is a shield to them that walk uprightly, |
| [8]To keep the paths of judgment, And the way of His saints He preserveth. |
[8]That they may keep the ways of judgment: and he preserveth the way of his Saints) |
| [9]Then understandest thou righteousness, And judgment, and uprightness -- every good path. |
[9]Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity , and every good path. |
| [10]For wisdom cometh into thy heart, And knowledge to thy soul is pleasant, |
[10]When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge delighteth thy soul, |
| [11]Thoughtfulness doth watch over thee, Understanding doth keep thee, |
[11]Then shall counsel preserve thee, and understanding shall keep thee, |
| [12]To deliver thee from an evil way, From any speaking froward things, |
[12]And deliver thee from the evil way, and from the man that speaketh froward things, |
| [13]Who are forsaking paths of uprightness, To walk in ways of darkness, |
[13]And from them that leave the ways of righteousness to walk in the ways of darkness: |
| [14]Who are rejoicing to do evil, They delight in frowardness of the wicked, |
[14]Which rejoice in doing evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked, |
| [15]Whose paths [are] crooked, Yea, they are perverted in their ways. |
[15]Whose ways are crooked and they are lewd in their paths. |
| [16]To deliver thee from the strange woman, From the stranger who hath made smooth her sayings, |
[16]And it shall deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger, which flattereth with her words. |
| [17]Who is forsaking the guide of her youth, And the covenant of her God hath forgotten. |
[17]Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God. |
| [18]For her house hath inclined unto death, And unto Rephaim her paths. |
[18]Surely her house tendeth to death, and her paths unto the dead. |
| [19]None going in unto her turn back, Nor do they reach 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 dost go in the way of the good, And the paths of the righteous dost keep. |
[20]Therefore walk thou in the way of good men, and keep the ways of the righteous. |
| [21]For the upright do inhabit the earth, And the perfect are left in it, |
[21]For the just shall dwell in the land, and the upright men shall remain in it. |
| [22]And the wicked from the earth are cut off, And treacherous dealers plucked out of it! |
[22]But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it. |