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| Verse | |
| 1. My son, if you receive my words, And treasure my commands within you, | |
| 2. So that you incline your ear to wisdom, And apply your heart to understanding; | |
| 3. Yes, if you cry out for discernment, And lift up your voice for understanding, | |
| 4. If you seek her as silver, And search for her as for hidden treasures; | |
| 5. Then you will understand the fear of the Lord, And find the knowledge of God. | |
| 6. For the Lord gives wisdom; From His mouth come knowledge and understanding; | |
| 7. He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk uprightly; | |
| 8. He guards the paths of justice, And preserves the way of His saints. Images | |
| 9. Then you will understand righteousness and justice, Equity and every good path. | |
| 10. When wisdom enters your heart, And knowledge is pleasant to your soul, | |
| 11. Discretion will preserve you; Understanding will keep you, | |
| 12. To deliver you from the way of evil, From the man who speaks perverse things, | |
| 13. From those who leave the paths of uprightness To walk in the ways of darkness ; | |
| 14. Who rejoice in doing evil, And delight in the perversity of the wicked; | |
| 15. Whose ways are crooked, And who are devious in their paths; | |
| 16. To deliver you from the immoral woman, From the seductress who flatters with her words, | |
| 17. Who forsakes the companion of her youth, And forgets the covenant of her God. | |
| 18. For her house leads down to death, And her paths to the dead; | |
| 19. None who go to her return, Nor do they regain the paths of life-- | |
| 20. So you may walk in the way of goodness , And keep to the paths of righteousness . | |
| 21. For the upright will dwell in the land, And the blameless will remain in it; | |
| 22. But the wicked will be cut off from the earth, And the unfaithful will be uprooted from it. |
| Verse | |
| 1. My son, if you receive my words, And treasure my commands within you, | |
| 2. So that you incline your ear to wisdom, And apply your heart to understanding; | |
| 3. Yes, if you cry out for discernment, And lift up your voice for understanding, | |
| 4. If you seek her as silver, And search for her as for hidden treasures; | |
| 5. Then you will understand the fear of the Lord, And find the knowledge of God. | |
| 6. For the Lord gives wisdom; From His mouth come knowledge and understanding; | |
| 7. He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk uprightly; | |
| 8. He guards the paths of justice, And preserves the way of His saints. Images | |
| 9. Then you will understand righteousness and justice, Equity and every good path. | |
| 10. When wisdom enters your heart, And knowledge is pleasant to your soul, | |
| 11. Discretion will preserve you; Understanding will keep you, | |
| 12. To deliver you from the way of evil, From the man who speaks perverse things, | |
| 13. From those who leave the paths of uprightness To walk in the ways of darkness ; | |
| 14. Who rejoice in doing evil, And delight in the perversity of the wicked; | |
| 15. Whose ways are crooked, And who are devious in their paths; | |
| 16. To deliver you from the immoral woman, From the seductress who flatters with her words, | |
| 17. Who forsakes the companion of her youth, And forgets the covenant of her God. | |
| 18. For her house leads down to death, And her paths to the dead; | |
| 19. None who go to her return, Nor do they regain the paths of life-- | |
| 20. So you may walk in the way of goodness , And keep to the paths of righteousness . | |
| 21. For the upright will dwell in the land, And the blameless will remain in it; | |
| 22. But the wicked will be cut off from the earth, And the unfaithful will be uprooted from it. |