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- ¶ MY son, if you will receive my words and hide my commandments in your heart,
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- And incline your ear to wisdom and apply your heart to understanding,
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- Yea, if you cry after knowledge and lift up your voice to understanding,
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- If you seek it as silver, and search for it as for hidden treasure;
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- Then you will understand how to worship the LORD and find the knowledge of God.
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- For it is the LORD who gives wisdom;
out of his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
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- He stores up hope for the upright;
he helps those who walk without blemish.
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- He keeps the paths of justice, and preserves the ways of his saints.
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- Then you will understand righteousness and justice and the uprightness of all good ways.
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- ¶ When wisdom enters into your heart and knowledge is pleasant to your soul.
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- Intelligence shall preserve you, and the understanding of the pious men shall deliver you;
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- That you might be delivered from evil ways, from men who speak perverse things,
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- Who forsake the path of uprightness to walk in the way of darkness;
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- Who rejoice to do evil and delight in the perverseness of evil things;
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- Men whose ways are crooked and whose paths are perverse.
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- Wisdom shall deliver you from a strange woman who flatters with her words,
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- Who has forsaken the mother of her youth and forgotten the covenant of her God.
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- For she has forgotten the threshold of her house and the way of her paths.
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- None who go to her return again, neither do they remember the path of life.
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- Therefore you must walk in the way of good men and keep the path of the righteous.
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- For the upright shall dwell in the land, and those who are unblemished shall remain in it.
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- But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth and the ungodly shall be rooted out of it.
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