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- My son, if you will receive my words And treasure my commandments within you,
- Make your ear attentive to wisdom, Incline your heart to understanding;
- For if you cry for discernment, Lift your voice for understanding;
- If you seek her as silver And search for her as for hidden treasures;
- Then you will discern the fear of the LORD And discover the knowledge of God.
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- My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you,
- turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding,
- and if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding,
- and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure,
- 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.
- He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
- Guarding the paths of justice, And He preserves the way of His godly ones.
- Then you will discern righteousness and justice And equity and every good course.
- For wisdom will enter your heart And knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;
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- For the LORD gives wisdom, and from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
- He holds victory in store for the upright, he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless,
- for he guards the course of the just and protects the way of his faithful ones.
- Then you will understand what is right and just and fair--every good path.
- For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
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- Discretion will guard you, Understanding will watch over you,
- To deliver you from the way of evil, From the man who speaks perverse things;
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- Discretion will protect you, and understanding will guard you.
- Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men, from men whose words are perverse,
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