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\c 2
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\q1
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\v 1 My son, listen to what I say,
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\q2 and consider my commands to be as valuable as a treasure.
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\q1
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\v 2 Pay attention to wisdom
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\q2 and try hard to understand what is wise.
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\q1
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\v 3 Call out to Yahweh to get insight,
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\q2 plead with him to help you understand more of what he wants you to know.
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\q1
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\v 4 Search eagerly for wisdom, like you would search for silver—
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\q2 like you would search for a treasure that someone has hidden.
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\q1
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\v 5 If you do that, you will understand how to give Yahweh the respect he deserves,
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\q2 and you will succeed in knowing God.
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\q1
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\v 6 Yahweh is the one who gives us wisdom.
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\q2 He is the one who tells us things that we need to know and understand.
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\q1
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\v 7 He stores up good advice so he can give it to them who honor him by the way they live their lives.
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\q2 He protects those who do with their lives what they say with their lips.
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\v 8 He guards justice and works to see it is done,
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\q2 and he keeps safe those who are faithful to him.
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\v 9 You will understand what Yahweh sees is right and what Yahweh determines is just to do,
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\q2 and he will show you the best way to live.
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\q1
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\v 10 Wisdom will fill your life;
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\q2 knowing what Yahweh wants you to know will cause you to be joyful.
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\v 11 You will learn to tell the difference between right and wrong
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\q1 and that will keep you safe.
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\q1
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\v 12 You will not do what Yahweh forbids you to do,
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\q2 and you will stay away from those who imagine horrible things and talk about them.
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\v 13 They go the wrong way,
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\q2 and they walk where there is no light.
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\v 14 They are glad when they do what is wrong,
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\q2 they twist good things into bad and enjoy doing what they know is wrong.
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\v 15 They bend the truth and live by deception
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\q2 and their lies hide what they have done.
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\v 16 Wisdom will keep you safe from the adulterous woman,
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\q2 and you will not pay attention when a strange woman invites you to be with her.
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\v 17 Those women left the husbands they married when they were young,
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\q2 they forgot the promise they made to God to love only the one they married.
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\q1
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\v 18 Those who enter her house are taken to their death,
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\q2 because the way to her house takes them where dead people are buried.
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\q1
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\v 19 All who go to her to sleep with her have no way to get out of her house,
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\q2 they will be so lost they will never find the way back to life.
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\v 20 You must live your life in the same way that good men are living.
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\q2 You should do the same things as those who do what is right.
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\v 21 Those who do what is right will receive the land as a gift from Yahweh,
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\q2 and only those who do what they have promised will stay in the land for a long time.
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\v 22 Those who do bad things will have no claim to this land,
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\q2 and people who take advantage of others and do not keep their word, they will never have even a small part of the land.
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