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The Value of Wisdom
My son, if you receive my words
and treasure up my commandments with you,
My son, if you receive my words
and treasure up my commandments with you,
Tune your ears to wisdom,
and concentrate on understanding.
and concentrate on understanding.
making your ear attentive to wisdom
and inclining your heart to understanding;
and inclining your heart to understanding;
Cry out for insight,
and ask for understanding.
and ask for understanding.
yes, if you call out for insight
and raise your voice for understanding,
and raise your voice for understanding,
Search for them as you would for silver;
seek them like hidden treasures.
seek them like hidden treasures.
if you seek it like silver
and search for it as for hidden treasures,
and search for it as for hidden treasures,
Then you will understand what it means to fear the LORD,
and you will gain knowledge of God.
and you will gain knowledge of God.
then you will understand the fear of the Lord
and find the knowledge of God.
and find the knowledge of God.
For the LORD grants wisdom!
From his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
From his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
For the Lord gives wisdom;
from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;
from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;
He grants a treasure of common sense to the honest.
He is a shield to those who walk with integrity.
He is a shield to those who walk with integrity.
he stores up sound wisdom for the upright;
he is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
he is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
He guards the paths of the just
and protects those who are faithful to him.
and protects those who are faithful to him.
guarding the paths of justice
and watching over the way of his saints.
and watching over the way of his saints.
Then you will understand what is right, just, and fair,
and you will find the right way to go.
and you will find the right way to go.
Then you will understand righteousness and justice
and equity, every good path;
and equity, every good path;
For wisdom will enter your heart,
and knowledge will fill you with joy.
and knowledge will fill you with joy.
for wisdom will come into your heart,
and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;
and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;
Wise choices will watch over you.
Understanding will keep you safe.
Understanding will keep you safe.
discretion will watch over you,
understanding will guard you,
understanding will guard you,
Wisdom will save you from evil people,
from those whose words are twisted.
from those whose words are twisted.
delivering you from the way of evil,
from men of perverted speech,
from men of perverted speech,
These men turn from the right way
to walk down dark paths.
to walk down dark paths.
who forsake the paths of uprightness
to walk in the ways of darkness,
to walk in the ways of darkness,
They take pleasure in doing wrong,
and they enjoy the twisted ways of evil.
and they enjoy the twisted ways of evil.
who rejoice in doing evil
and delight in the perverseness of evil,
and delight in the perverseness of evil,
Their actions are crooked,
and their ways are wrong.
and their ways are wrong.
men whose paths are crooked,
and who are devious in their ways.
and who are devious in their ways.
Wisdom will save you from the immoral woman,
from the seductive words of the promiscuous woman.
from the seductive words of the promiscuous woman.
She has abandoned her husband
and ignores the covenant she made before God.
and ignores the covenant she made before God.
who forsakes the companion of her youth
and forgets the covenant of her God;
and forgets the covenant of her God;
The man who visits her is doomed.
He will never reach the paths of life.
He will never reach the paths of life.
none who go to her come back,
nor do they regain the paths of life.
nor do they regain the paths of life.
So follow the steps of the good,
and stay on the paths of the righteous.
and stay on the paths of the righteous.
So you will walk in the way of the good
and keep to the paths of the righteous.
and keep to the paths of the righteous.
For only the godly will live in the land,
and those with integrity will remain in it.
and those with integrity will remain in it.
For the upright will inhabit the land,
and those with integrity will remain in it,
and those with integrity will remain in it,