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