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2:1  My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you,
2:2  making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding;
2:3  yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding,
2:4  if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures,
2:5  then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God.
2:6  For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;
2:7  he stores up sound wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
2:8  guarding the paths of justice and watching over the way of his saints.
2:9  Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path;
2:10  for wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;
2:11  discretion will watch over you, understanding will guard you,
2:12  delivering you from the way of evil, from men of perverted speech,
2:13  who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,
2:14  who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perverseness of evil,
2:15  men whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways.
2:16  So you will be delivered from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words,
2:17  who forsakes the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God;
2:18  for her house sinks down to death, and her paths to the departed;
2:19  none who go to her come back, nor do they regain the paths of life.
2:20  So you will walk in the way of the good and keep to the paths of the righteous.
2:21  For the upright will inhabit the land, and those with integrity will remain in it,
2:22  but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.