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My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my
commandments with thee;
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So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, [and] apply
thine heart to understanding;
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Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, [and] liftest up thy
voice for understanding;
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If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as
[for] hid treasures;
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Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find
the knowledge of God.
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For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth [cometh]
knowledge and understanding.
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He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: [he is] a
buckler to them that walk uprightly.
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He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of
his saints.
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Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and
equity; [yea], every good path.
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When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is
pleasant unto thy soul;
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Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep
thee:
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To deliver thee from the way of the evil [man], from the
man that speaketh froward things;
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Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of
darkness;
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Who rejoice to do evil, [and] delight in the frowardness of
the wicked;
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Whose ways [are] crooked, and [they] froward in their
paths:
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To deliver thee from the strange woman, [even] from the
stranger [which] flattereth with her words;
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Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the
covenant of her God.
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For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the
dead.
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None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold
of the paths of life.
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That thou mayest walk in the way of good [men], and keep
the paths of the righteous.
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For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect
shall remain in it.
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But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the
transgressors shall be rooted out of it.