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The Pursuit of Wisdom Brings Security
1 My son, if you will AProv 4:10receive my words
And BProv 3:1treasure my commandments within you,
2 AProv 22:17Make your ear attentive to wisdom,
Incline your heart to understanding;
3 For if you cry for discernment,
1Lit GiveLift your voice for understanding;
4 If you seek her as AProv 3:14silver
And search for her as for BJob 3:21; Matt 13:44hidden treasures;
5 Then you will discern the AProv 1:7fear of the Loʀᴅ
And discover the knowledge of God.
6 For A1 Kin 3:12; Job 32:8; James 1:5the Loʀᴅ gives wisdom;
From His mouth come knowledge and understanding.
7 He stores up sound wisdom for the upright;
He is a APs 84:11; Prov 30:5shield to those who walk in integrity,
8 Guarding the paths of justice,
And He A1 Sam 2:9; Ps 66:9preserves the way of His godly ones.
9 Then you will discern AProv 8:20righteousness and justice
And equity and every BProv 4:18good course.
10 For AProv 14:33wisdom will enter your heart
And BProv 22:18knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;
11 Discretion will AProv 4:6; 6:22guard you,
Understanding will watch over you,
12 To AProv 28:26deliver you from the way of evil,
From the man who speaks BProv 6:12perverse things;
13 From those who AProv 21:16leave the paths of uprightness
To walk in the BPs 82:5; Prov 4:19; John 3:19, 20ways of darkness;
14 Who AProv 10:23; Jer 11:15delight in doing evil
And rejoice in the perversity of evil;
15 Whose paths are APs 125:5; Prov 21:8crooked,
And who are devious in their ways;
16 To AProv 6:24; 7:5deliver you from the strange woman,
From the 1Lit strange womanBProv 23:27adulteress who flatters with her words;
17 That leaves the AMal 2:14, 15companion of her youth
And forgets the BGen 2:24covenant of her God;
And her tracks lead to the 2Lit departed spiritsdead;
19 None AEccl 7:26who go to her return again,
Nor do they reach the BPs 16:11; Prov 5:6paths of life.
20 So you will AHeb 6:12walk in the way of good men
And keep to the BProv 4:18paths of the righteous.
And BProv 28:10the blameless will remain in it;
22 But APs 37:38; Prov 10:30the wicked will be cut off from the land
And BProv 11:3the treacherous will be CDeut 28:63; Ps 52:5uprooted from it.