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2:1  My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and wilt hide my commandments with thee,
2:2  That thy ear may hearken to wisdom: Incline thy heart to know prudence:
2:3  For if thou shalt call for wisdom, and incline thy heart to prudence:
2:4  If thou shalt seek her as money, and shalt dig for her as for a treasure:
2:5  Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and shalt find the knowledge of God.
2:6  Because the Lord giveth wisdom: and out of his mouth cometh prudence and knowledge.
2:7  He will keep the salvation of the righteous, and protect them that walk in simplicity.
2:8  Keeping the paths of justice, and guarding the ways of saints.
2:9  Then shalt thou understand justice, and judgment, and equity, and every good path.
2:10  If wisdom shall enter into thy heart, and knowledge please thy soul:
2:11  Counsel shall keep thee, and prudence shall preserve thee,
2:12  That thou mayst be delivered from the evil way, and from the man that speaketh perverse things:
2:13  Who leave the right way, and walk by dark ways:
2:14  Who are glad when they have done evil, and rejoice in most wicked things:
2:15  Whose ways are perverse, and their steps infamous.
2:16  That thou mayst be delivered from the strange women, and from the stranger, who softeneth her words:
2:17  And forsaketh the guide of her youth,
2:18  And hath forgotten the covenant of her God: for her house inclineth unto death, and her paths to hell.
2:19  None that go in unto her shall return again, neither shall they take hold of the paths of life,
2:20  That thou mayst walk in a good way: and mayst keep the paths of the just.
2:21  For they that are upright shall dwell in the earth, and the simple shall continue in it.
2:22  But the wicked shall be destroyed from the earth: and they that do unjustly shall be taken away from it.