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1 My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you,
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1 My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you,
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2 making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding;
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2 turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding,
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3 yes, if you cry out for insight and raise your voice for understanding,
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3 and if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding,
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4 if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures;
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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 then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of 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 For the LORD gives wisdom; from his mouth 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 stores up sound wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
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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 guarding the paths of justice and preserving the way of his saints.
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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 Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path;
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9 Then you will understand what is right and just and fair--every good path.
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10 for wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;
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10 For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
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11 discretion will watch over you; understanding will guard you;
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11 Discretion will protect you, and understanding will guard you.
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12 delivering you from the way of evil, from men of perverted speech,
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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 who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,
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13 who leave the straight paths to walk in dark ways,
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14 who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perverseness of evil;
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14 who delight in doing wrong and rejoice in the perverseness of evil,
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15 men whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways.
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15 whose paths are crooked and who are devious in their ways.
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16 You will be saved from the loose woman, from the adventuress with her smooth words,
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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 forsakes the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God;
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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 for her house sinks down to death, and her paths to the shades;
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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 none who go to her come back nor do they regain the paths of 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 will walk in the way of good men and keep to the paths of the righteous.
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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 For the upright will inhabit the land, and men of integrity will remain in it;
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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 the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.
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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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| Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. (Revised Standard Version - Holy Bible) |
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