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2:1  My son, if you will receive my words and store my commands inside you,
2:2  paying attention to wisdom inclining your mind toward understanding —
2:3  yes, if you will call for insight and raise your voice for discernment,
2:4  if you seek it as you would silver and search for it as for hidden treasure —
2:5  then you will understand the fear of Adonai and find knowledge of God.
2:6  For Adonai gives wisdom; from his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
2:7  He stores up common sense for the upright, is a shield to those whose conduct is blameless,
2:8  in order to guard the courses of justice and preserve the way of those faithful to him.
2:9  Then you will understand righteousness, justice, fairness and every good path.
2:10  For wisdom will enter your heart, knowledge will be enjoyable for you,
2:11  discretion will watch over you, and discernment will guard you.
2:12  They will save you from the way of evil and from those who speak deceitfully,
2:13  who leave the paths of honesty to walk the ways of darkness,
2:14  who delight in doing evil and take joy in being stubbornly deceitful,
2:15  from those whose tracks are twisted and whose paths are perverse.
2:16  They will save you from a woman who is a stranger, from a loose woman with smooth talk,
2:17  who abandons the ruler she had in her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.
2:18  Her house is sinking toward death, her paths lead to the dead.
2:19  None who go to her return; they never regain the path to life.
2:20  Thus you will walk on the way of good people and keep to the paths of the righteous.
2:21  For the upright will live in the land, the pure-hearted will remain there;
2:22  but the wicked will be cut off from the land, the unfaithful rooted out of it.