21My son, if thou wilt receive my words, And lay up my commandments with thee;+2So as to incline thine ear unto wisdom, And apply thy heart to understanding;+3Yea, if thou cry after discernment, And lift up thy voice for understanding;+4If thou seek her as silver, And search for her as for hid treasures:+5Then shalt thou understand the fear of Jehovah, And find the knowledge of God.+6For Jehovah giveth wisdom; Out of his mouth [cometh] knowledge and understanding:+7He layeth up sound wisdom for the upright; [He is] a shield to them that walk in integrity;+8That he may guard the paths of justice, And preserve the way of his saints.+9Then shalt thou understand righteousness and justice, And equity, [yea], every good path.+10For wisdom shall enter into thy heart, And knowledge shall be pleasant unto thy soul;+11Discretion shall watch over thee; Understanding shall keep thee:+12To deliver thee from the way of evil, From the men that 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 thee from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words;+17That forsaketh the friend of her youth, And forgetteth the covenant of her God:+18For her house inclineth unto death, And her paths unto the dead;+19None that go unto her return again, Neither do they attain unto the paths of life:+20That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, And keep the paths of the righteous.+21For the upright shall dwell in the land, And the perfect shall remain in it.+22But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, And the treacherous shall be rooted out of it.+
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