Compare: Proverbs 2

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My son, if you accept my words and hide my commandments within you,

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if you incline your ear to wisdom and direct your heart to understanding,

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if you truly call out to insight and lift your voice to understanding,

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if you seek it like silver and search it out like hidden treasure,

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then you will discern the fear of the LORD and discover the knowledge of God.

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For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.

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He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk with integrity,

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to guard the paths of justice and protect the way of His saints.

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Then you will discern righteousness and justice and equity—every good path.

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For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will delight your soul.

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Discretion will watch over you, and understanding will guard you,

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to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perversity,

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from those who leave the straight paths to walk in the ways of darkness,

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from those who enjoy doing evil and rejoice in the twistedness of evil,

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whose paths are crooked and whose ways are devious.

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It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words

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who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.

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For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits.

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None who go to her return or negotiate the paths of life.

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So you will follow in the ways of the good, and keep to the paths of the righteous.

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For the upright will inhabit the land, and the blameless will remain in it;

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but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be uprooted.