| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1My son, if you will receive my words And treasure my commandments within you, |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Make your ear attentive to wisdom, Incline your heart to understanding; |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3For if you cry for discernment, Lift your voice for understanding; |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4If you seek her as silver And search for her as for hidden treasures; |
| 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 in integrity, |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Guarding the paths of justice, And He preserves the way of His godly ones. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Then you will discern righteousness and justice And equity and every good course. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10For wisdom will enter your heart And knowledge will be pleasant to your soul; |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Discretion will guard you, Understanding will watch over you, |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12To deliver you from the way of evil, From the man who speaks perverse things; |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13From those who leave the paths of uprightness To walk in the ways of darkness; |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Who delight in doing evil And rejoice in the perversity of evil; |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Whose paths are crooked, And who are devious in their ways; |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16To deliver you from the strange woman, From the adulteress who flatters with her words; |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17That leaves 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 tracks lead to the dead; |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19None who go to her return again, Nor do they reach the paths of life. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20So you will walk in the way of good men And keep to the paths of the righteous. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21For the upright will live in 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 treacherous will be uprooted from it. |
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