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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. |
