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2:1  My child, you must follow and treasure my teachings and my instructions.
2:2  Keep in tune with wisdom and think what it means to have common sense.
2:3  Beg as loud as you can for good common sense.
2:4  Search for wisdom as you would search for silver or hidden treasure.
2:5  Then you will understand what it means to respect and to know the Lord God.
2:6  All wisdom comes from the Lord, and so do common sense and understanding.
2:7  God gives helpful advice to everyone who obeys him and protects those who live as they should.
2:8  God sees that justice is done, and he watches over everyone who is faithful to him.
2:9  With wisdom you will learn what is right and honest and fair.
2:10  Wisdom will control your mind, and you will be pleased with knowledge.
2:11  Sound judgment and good sense will watch over you.
2:12  Wisdom will protect you from evil schemes and from those liars
2:13  who turned from doing good to live in the darkness.
2:14  Most of all they enjoy being mean and deceitful.
2:15  They are dishonest themselves, and so are all their deeds.
2:16  Wisdom will protect you from the smooth talk of a sinful woman,
2:17  who breaks her wedding vows and leaves the man she married when she was young.
2:18  The road to her house leads down to the dark world of the dead.
2:19  Visit her, and you will never find the road to life again.
2:20  Follow the example of good people and live an honest life.
2:21  If you are honest and innocent, you will keep your land;
2:22  if you do wrong and can never be trusted, you will be rooted out.