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My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and lay up my commandments with thee;

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So that thou make thine ear attend unto wisdom, and thy heart incline to discernment;

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Yea, if thou call for understanding, and lift up thy voice for discernment;

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If thou seek her as silver, and search for her as for hid treasures;

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Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.

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For the Lord giveth wisdom, out of His mouth cometh knowledge and discernment;

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He layeth 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 godly ones.

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Then shalt thou understand righteousness and justice, and equity, yea, every good path.

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For wisdom shall enter into thy heart, and knowledge shall be pleasant unto thy soul;

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Discretion shall watch over thee, discernment shall guard thee;

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To deliver thee from the way of evil, from the men that speak froward things;

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Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;

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Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of evil;

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Who are crooked in their ways, and perverse in their paths;

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To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the alien woman that maketh smooth her words;

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That forsaketh the lord of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.

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For her house sinketh down unto death, and her paths unto the shades;

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None that go unto her return, neither do they attain unto the paths of life;

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That thou mayest 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 whole-hearted shall remain in it.

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But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, and the faithless shall be plucked up out of it.