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1My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you,

1My son, if you accept my words, and treasure my instructions —

2turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding--

2making your ear attentive to wisdom, and turning your heart to understanding—

3indeed, if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding,

3if, indeed, you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding,

4and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure,

4if you seek it like silver and search for it like hidden treasure,

5then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God.

5then you will understand the fear of the LORD and learn to know God.

6For the LORD gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.

6For the LORD gives wisdom, and from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.

7He holds success in store for the upright, he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless,

7He stores up sound wisdom for the upright and is a shield to those who walk in integrity—

8for he guards the course of the just and protects the way of his faithful ones.

8guarding the paths of the just and protecting the way of his faithful ones.

9Then you will understand what is right and just and fair--every good path.

9Then you will understand what is right, just, and upright—every good path.

10For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.

11Discretion will protect you, and understanding will guard you.

11Discretion will protect you; understanding will watch over you,

12Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men, from men whose words are perverse,

12delivering you from the way of evil, from men who speak perverse things,

13who have left the straight paths to walk in dark ways,

13and from those who abandon the right path to travel along the ways of darkness;

14who delight in doing wrong and rejoice in the perverseness of evil,

14who delight in doing evil, and rejoice in the perverseness of evil;

15whose paths are crooked and who are devious in their ways.

15whose paths are crooked and who are devious in their ways,

16Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman, from the wayward woman with her seductive words,

16delivering you from the adulteress, from the immoral woman with her seductive words,

17who has left the partner of her youth and ignored the covenant she made before God.

17someone who abandoned the companion of her youth and forgot the covenant of her God.

18Surely her house leads down to death and her paths to the spirits of the dead.

18For her house leads down to death, and her paths down to the realm of the dead.

19None who go to her return or attain the paths of life.

19None who go to her return, nor do they reach the paths of life.

20Thus you will walk in the ways of the good and keep to the paths of the righteous.

20This is how you will walk in the way of good men and will keep to the paths of the righteous.

21For the upright will live in the land, and the blameless will remain in it;

21For the upright will live in the land, and people of integrity will remain in it.

22but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be torn from it.

22But the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be uprooted from it.

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