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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1My son, if you accept my words and hide my commandments within you, |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2if you incline your ear to wisdom and direct your heart to understanding, |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3if you truly call out to insight and lift your voice to understanding, |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4if you seek it like silver and search it out like hidden treasure, |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5then you will discern the fear of the LORD and discover the knowledge of God. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk with integrity, |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8to guard the paths of justice and protect the way of His saints. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Then you will discern righteousness and justice and equity—every good path. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will delight your soul. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Discretion will watch over you, and understanding will guard you, |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perversity, |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13from those who leave the straight paths to walk in the ways of darkness, |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14from those who enjoy doing evil and rejoice in the twistedness of evil, |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15whose paths are crooked and whose ways are devious. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19None who go to her return or negotiate the paths of life. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20So you will follow in the ways of the good, and keep to the paths of the righteous. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21For the upright will inhabit the land, and the blameless will remain in it; |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be uprooted. |
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