✧1My son, if you accept my words and hide my commandments within you, ✧2if you incline your ear to wisdom and direct your heart to understanding, ✧3if you truly call out to insight and lift your voice to understanding, ✧4if you seek it like silver and search it out like hidden treasure, ✧5then you will discern the fear of the LORD and discover the knowledge of God. ✧6For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding. ✧7He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk with integrity, ✧8to guard the paths of justice and protect the way of His saints. ✧9Then you will discern righteousness and justice and equity—every good path.
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✧10For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will delight your soul.
✧11Discretion will watch over you, and understanding will guard you,
✧12to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perversity,
✧13from those who leave the straight paths to walk in the ways of darkness,
✧14from those who enjoy doing evil and rejoice in the twistedness of evil,
✧15whose paths are crooked and whose ways are devious.
✧16It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words
✧17who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.
✧18For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits.
✧19None who go to her return or negotiate the paths of life.
✧20So you will follow in the ways of the good, and keep to the paths of the righteous.
✧21For the upright will inhabit the land, and the blameless will remain in it;
✧22but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be uprooted.