1. My son, if you accept my words, and treasure my commandments,
2. to make your ear attentive to wisdom, [if] you incline your heart to discernment;
3. for, if you call for understanding [and] raise your voice for discernment,
4. if you seek it like silver, and hunt for it like treasures,
5. then you will understand the fear of the Lord, and you will find the knowledge of God.
6. For the Lord gives wisdom; from His mouth [come] knowledge and discernment.
7. He lays up sound wisdom for the upright, a shield for those who walk in integrity;
8. to keep the paths of justice, and watch the way of His pious.
9. Then you shall understand righteousness, justice, and equity, every good path.
10. When wisdom comes into your heart, and knowledge shall be pleasant to your soul,
11. thought shall watch over you; discretion shall guard you,
12. to save you from an evil way. From a man who speaks perversity;
13. [from] those who forsake the ways of uprightness, to go on ways of darkness;
14. [from] those who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perversity of evil,
15. who are crooked in their ways and perverse in their paths.
16. To save you from a strange woman, from a foreign one who makes her words smooth,
17. who deserts the lord of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God
18. for her house sinks to death, and her paths [lead] to the dead;
19. none who go to her return, neither do they achieve the ways of life
20. in order that you go in the way of the good, and you keep the ways of the righteous.
21. For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain therein.
22. But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, and the treacherous shall be uprooted therefrom.
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