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2:1  My son, if thou dost accept my sayings, And my commands dost lay up with thee,
2:2  To cause thine ear to attend to wisdom, Thou inclinest thy heart to understanding,
2:3  For, if for intelligence thou callest, For understanding givest forth thy voice,
2:4  If thou dost seek her as silver, And as hid treasures searchest for her,
2:5  Then understandest thou fear of Jehovah, And knowledge of God thou findest.
2:6  For Jehovah giveth wisdom, From His mouth knowledge and understanding.
2:7  Even to lay up for the upright substance, A shield for those walking uprightly.
2:8  To keep the paths of judgment, And the way of His saints He preserveth.
2:9  Then understandest thou righteousness, And judgment, and uprightness -- every good path.
2:10  For wisdom cometh into thy heart, And knowledge to thy soul is pleasant,
2:11  Thoughtfulness doth watch over thee, Understanding doth keep thee,
2:12  To deliver thee from an evil way, From any speaking froward things,
2:13  Who are forsaking paths of uprightness, To walk in ways of darkness,
2:14  Who are rejoicing to do evil, They delight in frowardness of the wicked,
2:15  Whose paths [are] crooked, Yea, they are perverted in their ways.
2:16  To deliver thee from the strange woman, From the stranger who hath made smooth her sayings,
2:17  Who is forsaking the guide of her youth, And the covenant of her God hath forgotten.
2:18  For her house hath inclined unto death, And unto Rephaim her paths.
2:19  None going in unto her turn back, Nor do they reach the paths of life.
2:20  That thou dost go in the way of the good, And the paths of the righteous dost keep.
2:21  For the upright do inhabit the earth, And the perfect are left in it,
2:22  And the wicked from the earth are cut off, And treacherous dealers plucked out of it!