  THE PROVERBS OF SOLOMON
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  2:1  My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments 
       with thee;

  2:2  So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, [and] apply thine 
       heart to understanding;

  2:3  Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, [and] liftest up thy voice 
       for understanding;

  2:4  If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as [for] hid 
       treasures;

  2:5  Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the 
       knowledge of God.

  2:6  For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth [cometh] knowledge 
       and understanding.

  2:7  He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: [he is] a buckler 
       to them that walk uprightly.

  2:8  He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his 
       saints.

  2:9  Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and 
       equity; [yea], every good path.

  2:10  When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant 
        unto thy soul;

  2:11  Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:

  2:12  To deliver thee from the way of the evil [man], from the man  
        that speaketh froward things;

  2:13  Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of 
        darkness;

  2:14  Who rejoice to do evil, [and] delight in the frowardness of the 
        wicked;

  2:15  Whose ways [are] crooked, and [they] froward in their paths:

  2:16  To deliver thee from the strange woman, [even] from the stranger 
        [which] flattereth with her words;

  2:17  Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the 
        covenant of her God.
  
  2:18  For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.

  2:19  None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of 
        the paths of life.

  2:20  That thou mayest walk in the way of good [men], and keep the 
        paths of the righteous.

  2:21  For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall 
        remain in it.

  2:22  But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the 
        transgressors shall be rooted out of it.

