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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData My son, if thou wilt receive my words, And lay up my commandments with thee; |
| 2 |
fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData So as to incline thine ear unto wisdom, And apply thy heart to understanding; |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Yea, if thou cry after discernment, And lift up thy voice for understanding; |
| 4 |
fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData If thou seek her as silver, And search for her as for hid treasures: |
| 5 |
fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Then shalt thou understand the fear of Jehovah, And find the knowledge of God. |
| 6 |
fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData For Jehovah giveth wisdom; Out of his mouth `cometh' knowledge and understanding: |
| 7 |
fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData He layeth up sound wisdom for the upright; `He is' a shield to them that walk in integrity; |
| 8 |
fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData That he may guard the paths of justice, And preserve the way of his saints. |
| 9 |
fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Then shalt thou understand righteousness and justice, And equity, `yea', every good path. |
| 10 |
fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData For wisdom shall enter into thy heart, And knowledge shall be pleasant unto thy soul; |
| 11 |
fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Discretion shall watch over thee; Understanding shall keep thee: |
| 12 |
fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData To deliver thee from the way of evil, From the men that speak perverse things; |
| 13 |
fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Who forsake the paths of uprightness, To walk in the ways of darkness; |
| 14 |
fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Who rejoice to do evil, And delight in the perverseness of evil; |
| 15 |
fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Who are crooked in their ways, And wayward in their paths: |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words; |
| 17 |
fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData That forsaketh the friend of her youth, And forgetteth the covenant of her God: |
| 18 |
fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData For her house inclineth unto death, And her paths unto the dead; |
| 19 |
fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData None that go unto her return again, Neither do they attain unto the paths of life: |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, And keep the paths of the righteous. |
| 21 |
fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData For the upright shall dwell in the land, And the perfect shall remain in it. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, And the treacherous shall be rooted out of it. |
