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The Pursuit of Wisdom Brings Security
My son, if you will areceive my wordsAnd btreasure my commandments within you,2 aMake your ear attentive to wisdom;Incline your heart to understanding.3 For if you cry out for insight,And 1raise your voice for understanding;4 If you seek her as asilverAnd search for her as for bhidden treasures;5 Then you will understand the afear of the LORD,And discover the knowledge of God.6 For athe LORD gives wisdom;From His mouth come knowledge and understanding.7 He stores up sound wisdom for the upright;He is a ashield to those who walk in integrity,8 Guarding the paths of justice,And He awatches over the way of His godly ones.9 Then you will discern arighteousness, justice,And integrity, and every bgood path.10 For awisdom will enter your heart,And bknowledge will be delightful to your soul;11 Discretion will awatch over you,Understanding will guard you,12 To arescue you from the way of evil,From a person who speaks bperverse things;13 From those who aleave the paths of uprightnessTo walk in the bways of darkness;14 Who adelight in doing evilAnd rejoice in the perversity of evil;15 Whose paths are acrooked,And who are devious in their ways;16 To arescue you from the strange woman,From the bforeign woman who flatters with her words,17 Who leaves the acompanion of her youthAnd forgets the bcovenant of her God;18 For aher house sinks down to death,And her tracks lead to the 1dead;19 None awho go to her return,Nor do they reach the bpaths of life.20 So you will awalk in the way of good peopleAnd keep to the bpaths of the righteous.21 For athe upright will live in the land,And bthe blameless will remain in it;22 But athe wicked will be eliminated from the land,And bthe treacherous will be ctorn away from it.