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Moral Benefits of Wisdom
My son, if you accept my words
and store up my commands within you,
My son, if you accept my words
and store up my commands within you,
Tune your ears to wisdom,
and concentrate on understanding.
and concentrate on understanding.
turning your ear to wisdom
and applying your heart to understanding —
and applying your heart to understanding —
Cry out for insight,
and ask for understanding.
and ask for understanding.
indeed, if you call out for insight
and cry aloud for understanding,
and cry aloud for understanding,
Search for them as you would for silver;
seek them like hidden treasures.
seek them like hidden treasures.
and if you look for it as for silver
and search for it as for hidden treasure,
and search for it as for hidden treasure,
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 holds success in store for the upright,
he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless,
he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless,
He guards the paths of the just
and protects those who are faithful to him.
and protects those who are faithful to him.
for he guards the course of the just
and protects the way of his faithful ones.
and protects the way of his faithful ones.
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 what is right and just
and fair — every good path.
and fair — 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 enter 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 protect you,
and understanding will guard you.
and understanding will guard you.
Wisdom will save you from evil people,
from those whose words are twisted.
from those whose words are twisted.
Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men,
from men whose words are perverse,
from men whose words are perverse,
These men turn from the right way
to walk down dark paths.
to walk down dark paths.
who have left the straight paths
to walk in dark ways,
to walk in dark ways,
They take pleasure in doing wrong,
and they enjoy the twisted ways of evil.
and they enjoy the twisted ways of evil.
who delight in doing wrong
and rejoice in the perverseness of evil,
and rejoice in the perverseness of evil,
Their actions are crooked,
and their ways are wrong.
and their ways are wrong.
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.
Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman,
from the wayward woman with her seductive words,
from the wayward woman with her seductive words,
She has abandoned her husband
and ignores the covenant she made before God.
and ignores the covenant she made before God.
Surely her house leads down to death
and her paths to the spirits of the dead.
and her paths to the spirits of the dead.
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 return
or attain the paths of life.
or attain 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.
Thus you will walk in the ways 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 live in the land,
and the blameless will remain in it;
and the blameless will remain in it;