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2:1  My child, listen to what I say and remember what I command you.
2:2  Listen carefully to wisdom; set your mind on understanding.
2:3  Cry out for wisdom, and beg for understanding.
2:4  Search for it like silver, and hunt for it like hidden treasure.
2:5  Then you will understand respect for the Lord, and you will find that you know God.
2:6  Only the Lord gives wisdom; he gives knowledge and understanding.
2:7  He stores up wisdom for those who are honest. Like a shield he protects the innocent.
2:8  He makes sure that justice is done, and he protects those who are loyal to him.
2:9  Then you will understand what is honest and fair and what is the good and right thing to do.
2:10  Wisdom will come into your mind, and knowledge will be pleasing to you.
2:11  Good sense will protect you; understanding will guard you.
2:12  It will keep you from the wicked, from those whose words are bad,
2:13  who don’t do what is right but what is evil.
2:14  They enjoy doing wrong and are happy to do what is crooked and evil.
2:15  What they do is wrong, and their ways are dishonest.
2:16  It will save you from the unfaithful wife who tries to lead you into adultery with pleasing words.
2:17  She leaves the husband she married when she was young. She ignores the promise she made before God.
2:18  Her house is on the way to death; those who took that path are now all dead.
2:19  No one who goes to her comes back or walks the path of life again.
2:20  But wisdom will help you be good and do what is right.
2:21  Those who are honest will live in the land, and those who are innocent will remain in it.
2:22  But the wicked will be removed from the land, and the unfaithful will be thrown out of it.