1.8 KiB
The Value of Wisdom
Chapter 2
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My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you,
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making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding;
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yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding,
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if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures,
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then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find 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 sound wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
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guarding the paths of justice and watching over the way of his saints.
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Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path;
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for wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;
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discretion will watch over you, understanding will guard you,
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delivering you from the way of evil, from men of perverted speech,
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who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,
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who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perverseness of evil,
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men whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways.
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So you will be delivered from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words,
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who forsakes 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 paths to the departed;
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none who go to her come back, nor do they regain the paths of life.
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So you will walk in 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 with integrity will remain in it,
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but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.