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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] | 2turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding-- |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3indeed, if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding, |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure, |
| 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 holds success in store for the upright, he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless, |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8for he guards the course of the just and protects the way of his faithful ones. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Then you will understand what is right and just and fair--every good path. |
| 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 protect you, and understanding will guard you. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men, from men whose words are perverse, |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13who have left the straight paths to walk in dark ways, |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14who delight in doing wrong and rejoice in the perverseness 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] | 16Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman, from the wayward woman with her seductive words, |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17who has left the partner of her youth and ignored the covenant she made before God. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Surely her house leads down to death and her paths to the spirits of the dead. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19None who go to her return or attain the paths of life. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Thus you will walk 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 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 unfaithful will be torn from it. |
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