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2:1  My son, if you accept my words and treasure my mitzvot within you,
2:2  making your ear attentive to wisdom, inclining your heart to discernment,
2:3  yes, if you call out for insight, lifting up your voice for discernment,
2:4  if you seek her as silver and search for her as for hidden treasures,
2:5  then you will know the fear of Adonai and discover the knowledge of God.
2:6  For Adonai gives wisdom. Out of His mouth comes 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  He guards the paths of justice, and protects the way of His kedoshim.
2:9  Then you will discern what is right and just and fair—every good path.
2:10  For wisdom will enter your heart and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
2:11  Discretion will watch over you —discernment will guard you—
2:12  to deliver you from the way of evil, from those speaking perverse things,
2:13  who leave the straight paths to walk in ways of darkness,
2:14  who rejoice in doing wrong and delight in the perversity of evil,
2:15  whose paths are crooked and are devious in their ways—
2:16  to deliver you from a seducing woman— a wayward wife with seductive words,
2:17  who forsakes the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.
2:18  For her house sinks down to death and her tracks to the dead.
2:19  None who go to her return nor reach the paths of life.
2:20  So you will walk in the way of good men and keep to the paths of the righteous.
2:21  For the upright will dwell in the land and the blameless will remain in it.
2:22  But the wicked will be cut off from the land and the treacherous uprooted from it.