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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you, |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding; |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding, |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures, |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find 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 in integrity, |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8guarding the paths of justice and watching over the way of his saints. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path; |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10for wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul; |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11discretion will watch over you, understanding will guard you, |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12delivering you from the way of evil, from men of perverted speech, |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness, |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perverseness of evil, |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15men whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16So you will be delivered from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words, |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17who forsakes 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 paths to the departed; |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19none who go to her come back, nor do they regain the paths of life. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20So you will walk in 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 with 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 will be rooted out of it. |
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