rsv Proverbs:2 SEEK
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My son ,
if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you ,
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making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding ;
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yes ,
if you cry out for insight and raise your voice for understanding ,
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if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures ;
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then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God .
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For the LORD gives wisdom ;
from his mouth come knowledge and understanding ;
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he stores up sound wisdom for the upright ;
he is a shield to those who walk in integrity ,
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guarding the paths of justice and preserving the way of his saints .
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Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity ,
every good path ;
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for wisdom will come into your heart ,
and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul ;
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discretion will watch over you ;
understanding will guard you ;
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delivering you from the way of evil ,
from men of perverted speech ,
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who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness ,
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who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perverseness of evil ;
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men whose paths are crooked ,
and who are devious in their ways .
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You will be saved from the loose woman ,
from the adventuress with her smooth words ,
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who forsakes the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God ;
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for her house sinks down to death ,
and her paths to the shades ;
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none who go to her come back nor do they regain the paths of life .
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So you will walk in the way of good men and keep to the paths of the righteous .
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For the upright will inhabit the land ,
and men of integrity will remain in it ;
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but the wicked will be cut off from the land ,
and the treacherous will be rooted out of it .