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- MY SON, if you will receive my words and treasure up my commandments within you,
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- Making your ear attentive to skillful and godly Wisdom and inclining and directing your heart and mind to understanding [applying all your powers to the quest for it];
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- Yes, if you cry out for insight and raise your voice for understanding,
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- If you seek [Wisdom] as for silver and search for skillful and godly Wisdom as for hidden treasures,
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- Then you will understand the reverent and worshipful fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of [our omniscient] God. [Prov. 1:7.]
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- For the Lord gives skillful and godly Wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.
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- He hides away sound and godly Wisdom and stores it for the righteous (those who are upright and in right standing with Him); He is a shield to those who walk uprightly and in integrity,
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- That He may guard the paths of justice; yes, He preserves the way of His saints. [I Sam. 2:9; Ps. 66:8, 9.]
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- Then you will understand righteousness, justice, and fair dealing [in every area and relation]; yes, you will understand every good path.
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- For skillful and godly Wisdom shall enter into your heart, and knowledge shall be pleasant to you.
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- Discretion shall watch over you, understanding shall keep you,
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- To deliver you from the way of evil and the evil men, from men who speak perverse things and are liars,
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- Men who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,
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- Who rejoice to do evil and delight in the perverseness of evil,
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- Who are crooked in their ways, wayward and devious in their paths.
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- [Discretion shall watch over you, understanding shall keep you] to deliver you from the alien woman, from the outsider with her flattering words, [Prov. 2:11.]
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- Who forsakes the husband and guide of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.
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- For her house sinks down to death and her paths to the spirits [of the dead].
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- None who go to her return again, neither do they attain or regain the paths of life.
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- So may you walk in the way of good men, and keep to the paths of the [consistently] righteous (the upright, in right standing with God).
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- For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the men of integrity, blameless and complete [in God's sight], shall remain in it;
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- But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the treacherous shall be rooted out of it.
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