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2:1  My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you;
2:2  So as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;
2:3  Yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;
2:4  If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures:
2:5  then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and find the knowledge of God.
2:6  For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
2:7  He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity;
2:8  that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his saints.
2:9  Then you will understand righteousness and justice, equity and every good path.
2:10  For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
2:11  Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,
2:12  to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things;
2:13  who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
2:14  who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil;
2:15  who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths:
2:16  To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;
2:17  who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God:
2:18  for her house leads down to death, her paths to the dead.
2:19  None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life:
2:20  that you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.
2:21  For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it.
2:22  But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.