Searching for wisdom and finding it
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📚✭My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commands with you,
2 📚So that you turn your ear to wisdom,
and apply your heart
to understanding,
3 📚Yes, if you cry out after knowledge,
and lift up your voice
for understanding,
4 📚If you seek her as for silver,
and search for her as for hidden treasures,
5 📚✭Then you will understand the fear
of the LORD,
and find the knowledge of God.
6 📚✭For the LORD gives wisdom.
Out of his mouth come knowledge
and understanding.
7 📚✭He stores up sound wisdom for the righteous.
He is a shield to those who
walk uprightly.
8 📚He guards the paths of justice,
and preserves the way of his saints.
Some benefits of wisdom
9 📚Then you will understand righteousness
and justice and fairness,
yes, every good path.
10 📚When wisdom enters your heart
and knowledge is pleasant to your soul,
11 📚✭Discretion will preserve you,
understanding will keep you,
12 📚To deliver you from the way
of the evil man, from the man
who speaks perverse things,
13 📚Who leave the right paths to walk
in the ways of darkness,
14 📚Who rejoice in doing evil and delight
in the perversity of the wicked,
15 📚Whose ways are crooked,
and who are devious in their paths.
16 📚It will save you from
the strange woman✭,
from the stranger who flatters
with her words,
17 📚Who forsakes the guide of her youth,
and forgets the covenant of her God.
18 📚For her house goes down to death,
and her paths to the dead.
19 📚✭None who go to her return again or reach the paths of life.
20 📚✭Thus you may walk in the way of good men,
and keep to the paths of the righteous.
21 📚For the upright will live in the land,
and the blameless will remain in it.
22 📚But the wicked will be cut off from the earth,
and transgressors will be uprooted from it.