21My son, if you will receive my words,and store up my commandments within you;+2So as to turn your ear to wisdom,and apply your heart to understanding;+3Yes, if you call out for discernment,and lift up your voice for understanding;+4If you seek her as silver,and search for her as for hidden treasures:+5then you will understand the fear of Yahweh,and find the knowledge of God.+6For Yahweh gives wisdom.Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.+7He lays up sound wisdom for the upright.He is a shield to those who walk in integrity;+8that he may guard the paths of justice,and preserve the way of his saints.+9Then you will understand righteousness and justice,equity and every good path.+10For wisdom will enter into your heart.Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.+11Discretion will watch over you.Understanding will keep you,+12to deliver you from the way of evil,from the men who speak perverse things;+13who forsake the paths of uprightness,to walk in the ways of darkness;+14who rejoice to do evil,and delight in the perverseness of evil;+15who are crooked in their ways,and wayward in their paths:+16To deliver you from the strange woman,even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;+17who forsakes the friend of her youth,and forgets the covenant of her God:+18for her house leads down to death,her paths to the departed spirits.+19None who go to her return again,neither do they attain to the paths of life:+20that you may walk in the way of good men,and keep the paths of the righteous.+21For the upright will dwell in the land.The perfect will remain in it.+22But the wicked will be cut off from the land.The treacherous will be rooted out of it.+Footnotes (1)
a2:5 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).
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