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[1]My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and lay up my commandments with thee;
[2]So that thou make thine ear attend unto wisdom, and thy heart incline to discernment;
[3]Yea, if thou call understanding, and lift up thy voice for discernment;
[4]If thou seek her as silver, and search for her as for hid treasures;
[5]Then shalt thou understand the fear of 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇, and find the knowledge of God.
[6]For 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇 giveth wisdom, out of His mouth cometh knowledge and discernment;
[7]He layeth up sound wisdom for the upright, He is a shield to them that walk in integrity;
[8]That He may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of His godly ones.
[9]Then shalt thou understand righteousness and justice, and equity, yea, every good path.
[10]For wisdom shall enter into thy heart, and knowledge shall be pleasant unto thy soul;
[11]Discretion shall watch over thee, discernment shall guard thee;
[12]To deliver thee from the way of evil, from the men that speak froward things;
[13]Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
[14]Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of evil;
[15]Who are crooked in their ways, and perverse in their paths;
[16]To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the alien woman that maketh smooth her words;
[17]That forsaketh the lord of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
[18]For her house sinketh down unto death, and her paths unto the shades;
[19]None that go unto her return, neither do they attain unto the paths of life;
[20]That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.
[21]For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the whole-hearted shall remain in it.
[22]But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, and the faithless shall be plucked up out of it.
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