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2:1  My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and lay up my commandments with thee;
2:2  So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;
2:3  Yea, if thou cry after discernment, and lift up thy voice for understanding;
2:4  If thou seek her as silver, and search for her as for hid treasures;
2:5  Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.
2:6  For the LORD giveth wisdom; out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding:
2:7  He layeth up sound wisdom for the upright, he is a shield to them that walk in integrity;
2:8  That he may guard the paths of judgment, and preserve the way of his saints.
2:9  Then shalt thou understand righteousness and judgment, and equity, yea, every good path.
2:10  For wisdom shall enter into thine heart, and knowledge shall be pleasant unto thy soul;
2:11  Discretion shall watch over thee, understanding shall keep thee:
2:12  To deliver thee from the way of evil, from the men that speak froward things;
2:13  Who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
2:14  Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of evil;
2:15  Who are crooked in their ways, and perverse in their paths:
2:16  To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
2:17  Which forsaketh the friend of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God:
2:18  For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead:
2:19  None that go unto her return again, neither do they attain unto the paths of life:
2:20  That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.
2:21  For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.
2:22  But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, and they that deal treacherously shall be rooted out of it.