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2:1  My child, learn what I teach you and never forget what I tell you to do.
2:2  Listen to what is wise and try to understand it.
2:3  Yes, beg for knowledge; plead for insight.
2:4  Look for it as hard as you would for silver or some hidden treasure.
2:5  If you do, you will know what it means to fear the Lord and you will succeed in learning about God.
2:6  It is the Lord who gives wisdom; from him come knowledge and understanding.
2:7  He provides help and protection for those who are righteous and honest.
2:8  He protects those who treat others fairly, and guards those who are devoted to him.
2:9  If you listen to me, you will know what is right, just, and fair. You will know what you should do.
2:10  You will become wise, and your knowledge will give you pleasure.
2:11  Your insight and understanding will protect you
2:12  and prevent you from doing the wrong thing. They will keep you away from people who stir up trouble by what they say—
2:13  those who have abandoned a righteous life to live in the darkness of sin,
2:14  those who find pleasure in doing wrong and who enjoy senseless evil,
2:15  unreliable people who cannot be trusted.
2:16  You will be able to resist any immoral woman who tries to seduce you with her smooth talk,
2:17  who is faithless to her own husband and forgets her sacred vows.
2:18  If you go to her house, you are traveling the road to death. To go there is to approach the world of the dead.
2:19  No one who visits her ever comes back. He never returns to the road to life.
2:20  So you must follow the example of good people and live a righteous life.
2:21  Righteous people—people of integrity—will live in this land of ours.
2:22  But God will snatch the wicked from the land and pull sinners out of it like plants from the ground.