Seek wisdom as hidden treasure

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Discipline1My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you,

Wisdom2turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding—

Wisdom3indeed, if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding,

Wisdom4and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure,

Fear of LordWisdom5then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God.

Wisdom6For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.

Fear of LordJustice7He holds success in store for the upright, he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless,

Fear of LordJustice8for he guards the course of the just and protects the way of his faithful ones.

Wisdom guards from the evil way

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JusticeWisdom9Then you will understand what is right and just and fair—every good path.

Wisdom10For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.

Wisdom11Discretion will protect you, and understanding will guard you.

WisdomSpeech12Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men, from men whose words are perverse,

Wisdom13who have left the straight paths to walk in dark ways,

Wisdom14who delight in doing wrong and rejoice in the perverseness of evil,

Wisdom15whose paths are crooked and who are devious in their ways.

Wisdom delivers from the forbidden woman

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DesireFamily16Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman, from the wayward woman with her seductive words,

Family17who has left the partner of her youth and ignored the covenant she made before God.

Desire18Surely her house leads down to death and her paths to the spirits of the dead.

Desire19None who go to her return or attain the paths of life.

Wisdom20Thus you will walk in the ways of the good and keep to the paths of the righteous.

Justice21For the upright will live in the land, and the blameless will remain in it;

Justice22but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be torn from it.

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