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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1My child, if you receive my words, and store up my commands within you, |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2by making your ear attentive to wisdom, and by turning your heart to understanding, |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3indeed, if you call out for discernment--raise your voice for 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 how to fear the LORD, and you will discover knowledge about God. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6For the LORD gives wisdom, and from his mouth comes knowledge and understanding. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7He stores up effective counsel for the upright, and is like a shield for those who live with integrity, |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8to guard the paths of the righteous and to protect the way of his pious ones. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity--every good way. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10For wisdom will enter your heart, and moral knowledge will be attractive to you. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Discretion will protect you, understanding will guard you, |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12to deliver you from the way of the wicked, from those speaking perversity, |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13who leave the upright paths to walk on the dark ways, |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14who delight in doing evil, they rejoice in perverse evil; |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15whose paths are morally crooked, and who are devious in their ways; |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16to deliver you from the adulteress, from the sexually loose woman who speaks flattering words; |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17who leaves the husband from her younger days, and forgets her marriage covenant made before God. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18For her house sinks down to death, and her paths lead to the place of the departed spirits. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19None who go in to her will return, nor will they reach the paths of life. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20So you will walk in the way of good people, and will keep on the paths of the righteous. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21For the upright will reside in the land, and those with integrity will remain in it, |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22but the wicked will be removed from the land, and the treacherous will be torn away from it. |
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