My son, if
you will areceive
my words
And btreasure
my commandments
within
you,
aMake your ear
attentive
to wisdom
, Incline
your heart
to understanding
;
For if you cry
for discernment
, 1Lift
your voice
for understanding
;
If you seek
her as asilver
And search
for her as for bhidden
treasures
;
Then you will discern
the afear
of the LORD
And discover
the knowledge
of God
.
For athe LORD gives
wisdom
; From His mouth
come knowledge
and understanding
.
He stores up sound
wisdom
for the upright
; He is a ashield
to those who walk
in integrity
,
Guarding the paths
of justice
, And He apreserves
the way
of His godly
ones
.
Then you will discern
arighteousness
and justice
And equity
and every
bgood
course
.
For awisdom will enter
your heart
And bknowledge
will be pleasant
to your soul
;
Discretion will aguard
you, Understanding
will watch
over you,
To adeliver you from the way
of evil
, From the man
who speaks
bperverse
things
;
From those who aleave the paths
of uprightness
To walk
in the bways
of darkness
;
Who adelight
in doing
evil
And rejoice
in the perversity
of evil
;
Whose paths
are acrooked
, And who are devious
in their ways
;
To adeliver you from the strange
woman
, From the 1 badulteress
who flatters
with her words
;
That leaves the acompanion
of her youth
And forgets
the bcovenant
of her God
;
For aher house 1sinks
down
to death
And her tracks
lead to the 2dead
;
None awho go
to her return
again, Nor
do they reach
the bpaths
of life
.
So you will awalk
in the way
of good
men
And keep
to the bpaths
of the righteous
.
For athe upright will 1live
in the land
And bthe blameless
will remain
in it;
But athe wicked will be cut
off
from the land
And bthe treacherous
will be cuprooted
from it.