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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you, |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2listening closely to wisdom and directing your heart to understanding; |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3furthermore, if you 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 for it like hidden treasure, |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5then you will understand 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 success for the upright; He is a shield for those who live with integrity |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8so that he may guard the paths of justice and protect the way of his faithful followers. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Then you will understand righteousness, justice, and integrity--every good path. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will delight you. |
| 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] | 12It will rescue you from the way of evil--from anyone who says perverse things, |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13from those who abandon the right paths to walk in ways of darkness, |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14from those who enjoy doing evil and celebrate perversion, |
| 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 a forbidden woman, from a wayward woman with her flattering talk, |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17who abandons the companion 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 ways to the land of the departed spirits. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19None return who go to her; none reach the paths of life. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20So follow the way 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 those of integrity will remain in it; |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous ripped out of it. |
| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | The Christian Standard Bible. Copyright © 2017 by Holman Bible Publishers. Used by permission. |
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