2016-04-01 21:07:38 +00:00
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\c 2
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\q
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\v 1 My son, if you receive my words
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\q and treasure up my commandments with you,
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\q
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\v 2 listen to wisdom
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\q and you will incline your heart to understanding.
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\q
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\v 3 If you cry out for understanding
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\q and raise your voice for it,
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\q
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\v 4 if you seek it like you would seek silver
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\q and search for understanding as you would seek hidden treasures,
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\q
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\v 5 then you will understand the fear of Yahweh
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\q and you will find the knowledge of God.
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\q
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\v 6 For Yahweh gives wisdom,
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\q from his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
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\q
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\v 7 He stores up sound wisdom for those who please him,
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\q he is a shield for those who walk in integrity,
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\q
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\v 8 he guards the paths of justice
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\q and he will preserve the way of those who are faithful to him.
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\q
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\v 9 Then you will understand righteousness, justice, and equity,
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\q and every good path.
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\q
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\v 10 For wisdom will come into your heart,
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\q and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
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\q
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2016-11-04 21:12:37 +00:00
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\v 11 Discretion will watch over you,
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\q understanding will guard you.
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\q
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\v 12 They will rescue you from the way of evil,
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\q from those who speak perverse things,
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\q
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\v 13 who abandon the right paths
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\q and walk in the ways of darkness.
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\v 14 They rejoice when they do evil
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\q and delight in the perversities of evil.
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\q
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\v 15 They follow crooked paths,
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\q and using deception they hide their tracks.
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\v 16 Wisdom and discretion will save you from the immoral woman,
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\q from a woman looking for adventure and from her flattering words.
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\q
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\v 17 She forsakes the companion of her youth
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\q and forgets the covenant of her God.
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\v 18 For her house bows down to death
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\q and her tracks will lead you to those in the grave.
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\q
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\v 19 All who go in to her will not return again
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\q and they will not find the paths of life.
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\v 20 So you will walk in the way of good people
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\q and follow the paths of those who do right.
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\q
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\v 21 For those doing right will make a home in the land,
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\q and those with integrity will remain in it.
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\q
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\v 22 But the wicked will be cut off from the land,
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\q and the faithless will be cut off from it.
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