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Chapter 2 |
| 1 | My son, if
thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee; |
| 2 | So
that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to
understanding; |
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3 | Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up
thy voice for understanding; |
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4 | If thou seekest her as silver, and
searchest for her as for hid treasures; |
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5 | Then shalt thou understand
the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God. |
| 6 | For the LORD
giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding. |
| 7 |
He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk
uprightly. |
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| He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way
of his saints. |
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9 | Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and
judgment, and equity; yea, every good path. |
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10 | When wisdom entereth
into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; |
| 11 |
Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee: |
| 12 | To
deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward
things; |
| 13
| Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways
of darkness; |
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14 | Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the
frowardness of the wicked; |
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15 | Whose ways are crooked, and they
froward in their paths: |
| 16 | To deliver thee from the strange woman, even
from the stranger which flattereth with her words; |
| 17 | Which
forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
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| 18 | For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
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| 19 | None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths
of life. |
| 20
| That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep
the paths of the righteous. |
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21 | For the upright shall dwell in the
land, and the perfect shall remain in it. |
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22 | But the wicked shall be
cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it. |
