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| | Pro 2:1 | My son, if thou wilt receive my words, And lay up my commandments with thee;
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| | Pro 2:2 | So as to incline thine ear unto wisdom, And apply thy heart to understanding;
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| | Pro 2:3 | Yea, if thou cry after discernment, And lift up thy voice for understanding;
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| | Pro 2:4 | If thou seek her as silver, And search for her as for hid treasures:
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| | Pro 2:5 | Then shalt thou understand the fear of Jehovah, And find the knowledge of God.
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| | Pro 2:6 | For Jehovah giveth wisdom; Out of his mouth `cometh' knowledge and understanding:
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| | Pro 2:7 | He layeth up sound wisdom for the upright; `He is' a shield to them that walk in integrity;
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| | Pro 2:8 | That he may guard the paths of justice, And preserve the way of his saints.
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| | Pro 2:9 | Then shalt thou understand righteousness and justice, And equity, `yea', every good path.
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| | Pro 2:10 | For wisdom shall enter into thy heart, And knowledge shall be pleasant unto thy soul;
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| | Pro 2:11 | Discretion shall watch over thee; Understanding shall keep thee:
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| | Pro 2:12 | To deliver thee from the way of evil, From the men that speak perverse things;
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| | Pro 2:13 | Who forsake the paths of uprightness, To walk in the ways of darkness;
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| | Pro 2:14 | Who rejoice to do evil, And delight in the perverseness of evil;
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| | Pro 2:15 | Who are crooked in their ways, And wayward in their paths:
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| | Pro 2:16 | To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words;
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| | Pro 2:17 | That forsaketh the friend of her youth, And forgetteth the covenant of her God:
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| | Pro 2:18 | For her house inclineth unto death, And her paths unto the dead;
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| | Pro 2:19 | None that go unto her return again, Neither do they attain unto the paths of life:
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| | Pro 2:20 | That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, And keep the paths of the righteous.
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| | Pro 2:21 | For the upright shall dwell in the land, And the perfect shall remain in it.
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| | Pro 2:22 | But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, And the treacherous shall be rooted out of it.
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