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45 lines
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# Chapter 2
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1 My son, if you accept my words
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and store up my commands within you,
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2 listening closely to wisdom
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and directing your heart to understanding;
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3 furthermore, if you call out to insight
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and lift your voice to understanding,
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4 if you seek it like silver
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and search for it like hidden treasure,
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5 then you will understand the fear of the Lord
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and discover the knowledge of God.
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6 For the Lord gives wisdom;
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from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
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7 He stores up success for the upright;
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He is a shield for those who live with integrity
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8 so that he may guard the paths of justice
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and protect the way of his faithful followers.
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9 Then you will understand righteousness, justice,
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and integrity—every good path.
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10 For wisdom will enter your heart,
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and knowledge will delight you.
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11 Discretion will watch over you,
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and understanding will guard you.
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12 It will rescue you from the way of evil—
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from anyone who says perverse things,
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13 from those who abandon the right paths
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to walk in ways of darkness,
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14 from those who enjoy doing evil
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and celebrate perversion,
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15 whose paths are crooked,
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and whose ways are devious.
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16 It will rescue you from a forbidden woman,
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from a wayward woman with her flattering talk,
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17 who abandons the companion of her youth
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and forgets the covenant of her God;
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18 for her house sinks down to death
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and her ways to the land of the departed spirits.
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19 None return who go to her;
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none reach the paths of life.
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20 So follow the way of the good,
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and keep to the paths of the righteous.
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21 For the upright will inhabit the land,
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and those of integrity will remain in it;
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22 but the wicked will be cut off from the land,
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and the treacherous ripped out of it. |