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2:1  My son, if you receive my sayings and store up my teachings within you,
2:2  make your ear open to wisdom. Turn your heart to understanding.
2:3  If you cry out to know right from wrong, and lift your voice for understanding;
2:4  if you look for her as silver, and look for her as hidden riches;
2:5  then you will understand the fear of the Lord, and find what is known of God.
2:6  For the Lord gives wisdom. Much learning and understanding come from His mouth.
2:7  He stores up perfect wisdom for those who are right with Him. He is a safe-covering to those who are right in their walk.
2:8  He watches over the right way, and He keeps safe the way of those who belong to Him.
2:9  Then you will understand what is right and good, and right from wrong, and you will know what you should do.
2:10  For wisdom will come into your heart. And much learning will be pleasing to your soul.
2:11  Good thinking will keep you safe. Understanding will watch over you.
2:12  You will be kept from the sinful man, and from the man who causes much trouble by what he says.
2:13  You will be kept from the man who leaves the right way to walk in the ways of darkness,
2:14  from the one who is happy doing wrong, and who finds joy in the way of sin.
2:15  His ways are not straight and are not good.
2:16  You will be saved from the strange woman, from the sinful woman with her smooth words.
2:17  She leaves the husband she had when she was young, and forgets the agreement with her God.
2:18  For her house goes down to death, and her steps lead to the dead.
2:19  None who go to her return again, and they do not find the paths of life.
2:20  So may you walk in the way of good men, and keep to the paths of those who are right and good.
2:21  For those who are right with God will live in the land. The men without blame will stay in it,
2:22  but the sinful will be destroyed from the land, and those who are not faithful will be taken away from it.