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2 : 1 My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you,
2 : 2 turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding,
2 : 3 and if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding,
2 : 4 and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure,
2 : 5 then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God.
2 : 6 For the LORD gives wisdom, and from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
2 : 7 He holds victory in store for the upright, he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless,
2 : 8 for he guards the course of the just and protects the way of his faithful ones.
2 : 9 Then you will understand what is right and just and fair--every good path.
2 : 10 For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
2 : 11 Discretion will protect you, and understanding will guard you.
2 : 12 Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men, from men whose words are perverse,
2 : 13 who leave the straight paths to walk in dark ways,
2 : 14 who delight in doing wrong and rejoice in the perverseness of evil,
2 : 15 whose paths are crooked and who are devious in their ways.
2 : 16 It will save you also from the adulteress, from the wayward wife with her seductive words,
2 : 17 who has left the partner of her youth and ignored the covenant she made before God.
2 : 18 For her house leads down to death and her paths to the spirits of the dead.
2 : 19 None who go to her return or attain the paths of life.
2 : 20 Thus you will walk in the ways of good men and keep to the paths of the righteous.
2 : 21 For the upright will live in the land, and the blameless will remain in it;
2 : 22 but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be torn from it.