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2:1  My child, if you receive my words, and store up my commands within you,
2:2  by making your ear attentive to wisdom, and by turning your heart to understanding,
2:3  indeed, if you call out for discernment--raise your voice for understanding--
2:4  if you seek it like silver, and search for it like hidden treasure,
2:5  then you will understand how to fear the LORD, and you will discover knowledge about God.
2:6  For the LORD gives wisdom, and from his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
2:7  He stores up effective counsel for the upright, and is like a shield for those who live with integrity,
2:8  to guard the paths of the righteous and to protect the way of his pious ones.
2:9  Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity--every good way.
2:10  For wisdom will enter your heart, and moral knowledge will be attractive to you.
2:11  Discretion will protect you, understanding will guard you,
2:12  to deliver you from the way of the wicked, from those speaking perversity,
2:13  who leave the upright paths to walk on the dark ways,
2:14  who delight in doing evil, they rejoice in perverse evil;
2:15  whose paths are morally crooked, and who are devious in their ways;
2:16  to deliver you from the adulteress, from the sexually loose woman who speaks flattering words;
2:17  who leaves the husband from her younger days, and forgets her marriage covenant made before God.
2:18  For her house sinks down to death, and her paths lead to the place of the departed spirits.
2:19  None who go in to her will return, nor will they reach the paths of life.
2:20  So you will walk in the way of good people, and will keep on the paths of the righteous.
2:21  For the upright will reside in the land, and those with integrity will remain in it,
2:22  but the wicked will be removed from the land, and the treacherous will be torn away from it.