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Chapter 2
1 My son, if you will receive my words, and will hide my commandments with you,
2 That your ear may hearken to wisdom: Incline your heart to know prudence:
3 For if you shall call for wisdom, and incline your heart to prudence:
4 If you shall seek her as money, and shall dig for her as for a treasure:
5 Then shall you understand the fear of the Lord, and shall find the knowledge of God.
6 Because the Lord gives wisdom: and out of his mouth comes prudence and knowledge.
7 He will keep the salvation of the righteous, and protect them that walk in simplicity.
8 Keeping the paths of justice, and guarding the ways of saints.
9 Then shall you understand justice, and judgment, and equity, and every good path.
10 If wisdom shall enter into your heart, and knowledge please your soul:
11 Counsel shall keep you, and prudence shall preserve you,
12 That you may be delivered from the evil way, and from the man that speaks perverse things:
13 Who leave the right way, and walk by dark ways:
14 Who are glad when they have done evil, and rejoice in most wicked things:
15 Whose ways are perverse, and their steps infamous.
16 That you may be delivered from the strange women, and from the stranger, who softens her words:
17 And forsakes the guide of her youth,
18 And has forgotten the covenant of her God: for her house inclines unto death, and her paths to hell.
19 None that go in unto her shall return again, neither shall they take hold of the paths of life,
20 That you may walk in a good way: and may keep the paths of the just.
21 For they that are upright shall dwell in the earth, and the simple shall continue in it.
22 But the wicked shall be destroyed from the earth: and they that do unjustly shall be taken away from it.