Prov 2
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My son, if you will receive my words, And lay up my commandments with you;
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So as to incline your ear to wisdom, And apply your heart to understanding;
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Yea, if you cry after discernment, And lift up your voice for understanding;
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If you seek her as silver, And search for her as for hid treasures:
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Then shall you understand the fear of YHWH, And find the knowledge of God.
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For YHWH gives wisdom; Out of his mouth [comes] knowledge and understanding:
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He lays up sound wisdom for the upright; [He is] a shield to them that walk in integrity;
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That he may guard the paths of justice, And preserve the way of his saints.
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Then shall you understand righteousness and justice, And equity, [yea], every good
path.
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For wisdom shall enter into your heart, And knowledge shall be pleasant to your soul;
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Discretion shall watch over you; Understanding shall keep you:
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To deliver you from the way of evil, From the men that speak perverse things;
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Who forsake the paths of uprightness, To walk in the ways of darkness;
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Who rejoice to do evil, And delight in the perverseness of evil;
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Who are crooked in their ways, And wayward in their paths:
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To deliver you from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that flatters with
her words;
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That forsakes the friend of her youth, And forgets the covenant of her God:
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For her house inclines to death, And her paths to the dead;
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None that go to her return again, Neither do they attain to the paths of life:
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That you may walk in the way of good men, And keep the paths of the righteous.
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For the upright shall dwell in the land, And the perfect shall remain in it.
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But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, And the treacherous shall be rooted
out of it.