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1 My child, learn what I teach you and never forget what I tell you to do.
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1 My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you,
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2 Listen to what is wise and try to understand it.
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2 turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding,
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3 Yes, beg for knowledge; plead for insight.
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3 and if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding,
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4 Look for it as hard as you would for silver or some hidden treasure.
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4 and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure,
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5 If you do, you will know what it means to fear the Lord and you will succeed in learning about God.
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5 then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God.
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6 It is the Lord who gives wisdom; from him come knowledge and understanding.
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6 For the LORD gives wisdom, and from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
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7 He provides help and protection for those who are righteous and honest.
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7 He holds victory in store for the upright, he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless,
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8 He protects those who treat others fairly, and guards those who are devoted to him.
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8 for he guards the course of the just and protects the way of his faithful ones.
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9 If you listen to me, you will know what is right, just, and fair. You will know what you should do.
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9 Then you will understand what is right and just and fair--every good path.
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10 You will become wise, and your knowledge will give you pleasure.
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10 For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
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11 Your insight and understanding will protect you
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11 Discretion will protect you, and understanding will guard you.
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12 and prevent you from doing the wrong thing. They will keep you away from people who stir up trouble by what they say -
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12 Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men, from men whose words are perverse,
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13 those who have abandoned a righteous life to live in the darkness of sin,
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13 who leave the straight paths to walk in dark ways,
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14 those who find pleasure in doing wrong and who enjoy senseless evil,
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14 who delight in doing wrong and rejoice in the perverseness of evil,
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15 unreliable people who cannot be trusted.
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15 whose paths are crooked and who are devious in their ways.
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16 You will be able to resist any immoral woman who tries to seduce you with her smooth talk,
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16 It will save you also from the adulteress, from the wayward wife with her seductive words,
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17 who is faithless to her own husband and forgets her sacred vows.
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17 who has left the partner of her youth and ignored the covenant she made before God.
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18 If you go to her house, you are traveling the road to death. To go there is to approach the world of the dead.
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18 For her house leads down to death and her paths to the spirits of the dead.
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19 No one who visits her ever comes back. He never returns to the road to life.
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19 None who go to her return or attain the paths of life.
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20 So you must follow the example of good people and live a righteous life.
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20 Thus you will walk in the ways of good men and keep to the paths of the righteous.
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21 Righteous people - people of integrity - will live in this land of ours.
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21 For the upright will live in the land, and the blameless will remain in it;
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22 But God will snatch the wicked from the land and pull sinners out of it like plants from the ground.
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22 but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be torn from it.
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| Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission. (The Good News Translation - The Holy Bible Online) |
Scripture quoted by permission. Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica. All rights reserved worldwide. (New International Version Bible Online) |
