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2:1 My sonne, if thou wilt receiue my wordes, and hide my commandements within thee,
2:2 And cause thine eares to hearken vnto wisdome, and encline thine heart to vnderstanding,
2:3 (For if thou callest after knowledge, and cryest for vnderstanding:
2:4 If thou seekest her as siluer, and searchest for her as for treasures,
2:5 Then shalt thou vnderstand the feare of the Lord, and finde the knowledge of God.
2:6 For the Lord giueth wisdome, out of his mouth commeth knowledge and vnderstanding.
2:7 He preserueth the state of the righteous: he is a shielde to them that walke vprightly,
2:8 That they may keepe the wayes of iudgement: and he preserueth the way of his Saintes)
2:9 Then shalt thou vnderstand righteousnes, and iudgement, and equitie, and euery good path.
2:10 When wisdome entreth into thine heart, and knowledge deliteth thy soule,
2:11 Then shall counsell preserue thee, and vnderstanding shall keepe thee,
2:12 And deliuer thee from the euill way, and from the man that speaketh froward things,
2:13 And from them that leaue the wayes of righteousnes to walke in the wayes of darkenes:
2:14 Which reioyce in doing euill, and delite in the frowardnesse of the wicked,
2:15 Whose wayes are crooked and they are lewde in their paths.
2:16 And it shall deliuer thee from the strange woman, euen from the stranger, which flattereth with her wordes.
2:17 Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the couenant of her God.
2:18 Surely her house tendeth to death, and her paths vnto the dead.
2:19 All they that goe vnto her, returne not againe, neither take they holde of the wayes of life.
2:20 Therefore walke thou in the way of good men, and keepe the wayes of the righteous.
2:21 For the iust shall dwell in the land, and the vpright men shall remaine in it.
2:22 But the wicked shalbe cut off from ye earth, and the transgressours shalbe rooted out of it.