68 lines
1.9 KiB
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68 lines
1.9 KiB
Markdown
## Yahweh Gives Wisdom
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My son, if you will receive my words And treasure my commandments within you,
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###### 2
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To make your ear pay attention to wisdom, Incline your heart to discernment;
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###### 3
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For if you call out for understanding, Give your voice for discernment;
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If you seek her as silver And search for her as for hidden treasures;
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Then you will understand the fear of Yahweh And find the knowledge of God.
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###### 6
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For Yahweh gives wisdom; From His mouth _come_ knowledge and discernment.
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He stores up sound wisdom for the upright, A shield to those who walk in integrity,
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To guard the paths of justice, And He keeps the way of His holy ones.
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Then you will understand righteousness and justice And equity--every good track.
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For wisdom will enter your heart And knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;
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Discretion will keep you, Discernment will guard you,
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To deliver you from the way of evil, From the man who speaks perverse things;
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From those who forsake the paths of uprightness To walk in the ways of darkness;
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Who are glad to do evil And they rejoice in the perversity of evil;
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Whose paths are crooked, And who are devious in their tracks;
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To deliver you from the strange woman, From the foreign woman who flatters with her words;
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Who forsakes the close companion of her youth And forgets the covenant of her God;
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For her house sinks down to death And her tracks _descend_ to the dead;
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All who go to her will not return, And they will not reach the paths of life.
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So that 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 dwell in the land And the blameless will remain in it;
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But the wicked will be cut off from the land And the treacherous will be torn away from it.
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