American Standard Version of 1901
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My son, if thou wilt receive my words,And lay up my commandments with thee;
So as to incline thine ear unto wisdom,And apply thy heart to understanding;
Yea, if thou cry after discernment,And lift up thy voice for understanding;
If thou seek her as silver,And search for her as for hid treasures:
Then shalt thou understand the fear of Jehovah,And find the knowledge of God.
My son, if thou wilt receive my words,And lay up my commandments with thee;
So as to incline thine ear unto wisdom,And apply thy heart to understanding;
Yea, if thou cry after discernment,And lift up thy voice for understanding;
If thou seek her as silver,And search for her as for hid treasures:
Then shalt thou understand the fear of Jehovah,And find the knowledge of God.
For Jehovah giveth wisdom;Out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding:
He layeth up sound wisdom for the upright; {Or, And a shield for &c.}He is a shield to them that walk in integrity;
{Or, That they may keep}That he may guard the paths of justice, {Or, Yea he preserveth}And preserve the way of his saints.
Then shalt thou understand righteousness and justice,And equity, yea, every good path.
For wisdom shall enter into thy heart,And knowledge shall be pleasant unto thy soul;
Discretion shall watch over thee;Understanding shall keep thee:
To deliver thee from the way of {Or, the evil man}evil,From the men that speak perverse things;
Who forsake the paths of uprightness,To walk in the ways of darkness;
Who rejoice to do evil,And delight in the perverseness of {Or, the evil man}evil;
Who are crooked in their ways,And wayward in their paths:
To deliver thee from the strange woman,Even from the foreigner that {Hebrew: maketh smooth her words.}flattereth with her words;
That forsaketh the {Or, guide}friend of her youth,And forgetteth the covenant of her God:
For {Or, she sinketh down unto death, which is her house}her house inclineth unto death,And her paths unto {Or, the shades Hebrew: Rephaim.}the dead;
None that go unto her return again,Neither do they attain unto the paths of life:
That thou mayest walk in the way of good men,And keep the paths of the righteous.
For the upright shall dwell in the {Or, earth}land,And the perfect shall remain in it.
But the wicked shall be cut off from the {Or, earth}land,And the treacherous shall be rooted out of it.
But Mary kept all these {Or, things}sayings, pondering them in her heart.
And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth; and he was subject unto them: and his mother kept all these {Or, things}sayings in her heart.
Thy word have I laid up in my heart,That I might not sin against thee.
holding faith and a good conscience; which some having thrust from them made shipwreck concerning the faith:
but refuse profane and old wives' fables. And exercise thyself unto godliness:
for bodily exercise is profitable {Or, for little}for a little; but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life which now is, and of that which is to come.
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: