| 1: My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my
commandments with thee; |
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| 2: So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine
heart to understanding; |
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Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice
for understanding; |
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| 4: If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for
hid treasures; |
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| 5: Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the
knowledge of God. |
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| 6: For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge
and understanding. |
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| 7: He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler
to them that walk uprightly. |
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| 8: He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of
his saints. |
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| 9: Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and
equity; yea, every good path. |
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| 10: When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is
pleasant unto thy soul; |
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| 11: Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep
thee: |
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| 12: To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man
that speaketh froward things; |
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| 13: Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of
darkness; |
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| 14: Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the
wicked; |
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| 15: Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:
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| 16: To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the
stranger which flattereth with her words; |
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| 17: Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the
covenant of her God. |
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| 18: For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the
dead. |
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| 19: None that go unto her return again, neither take
they hold of the paths of life. |
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| 20: That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the
paths of the righteous. |
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| 21: For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect
shall remain in it. |
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| 22: But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the
transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
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