My son,
if thou wilt receive
my words,
and hide
my commandments
with thee;
So that thou incline
thine ear
unto wisdom,
and apply
thine heart
to understanding;
Yea, if thou criest
after knowledge,
and liftest up
thy voice
for understanding;
If thou seekest
her as silver,
and searchest
for her as for hid treasures;
Then shalt thou understand
the fear
of the LORD,
and find
the knowledge
of God.
For the LORD
giveth
wisdom:
out of his mouth
cometh knowledge
and understanding.
He layeth up
sound wisdom
for the righteous:
he is a buckler
to them that walk
uprightly.
He keepeth
the paths
of judgment,
and preserveth
the way
of his saints.
Then shalt thou understand
righteousness,
and judgment,
and equity;
yea, every good
path.
When wisdom
entereth
into thine heart,
and knowledge
is pleasant
unto thy soul;
Discretion
shall preserve
thee, understanding
shall keep
thee:
To deliver
thee from the way
of the evil
man, from the man
that speaketh
froward things;
Who leave
the paths
of uprightness,
to walk
in the ways
of darkness;
Who rejoice
to do
evil,
and delight
in the frowardness
of the wicked;
Whose ways
are crooked,
and they froward
in their paths:
To deliver
thee from the strange
woman,
even from the stranger
which flattereth
with her words;
Which forsaketh
the guide
of her youth,
and forgetteth
the covenant
of her God.
For her house
inclineth
unto death,
and her paths
unto the dead.
None that go
unto her return again,
neither take they hold
of the paths
of life.
That thou mayest walk
in the way
of good
men, and keep
the paths
of the righteous.
For the upright
shall dwell
in the land,
and the perfect
shall remain
in it.
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οἰκήτορες
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But the wicked
shall be cut off
from the earth,
and the transgressors
shall be rooted out
of it.
