Proverbs 4:5

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Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.

"{How long}, O simple ones, will you love simplicity? And [how long] will scoffers delight in their scoffing, and fools hate knowledge?

[in order] to incline your ear toward wisdom, [then] you shall apply your heart to understanding.

Happy [is] {the one} who finds wisdom, and one who obtains understanding.

Learn prudence, O simple ones; fools, learn {intelligence}.

Why [is] this? A price in the hand of a fool, [in order] to buy wisdom where there is no {sense}.

He who is selfish seeks a craving; against all sound judgment he shows contempt.

He who acquires wisdom loves himself; he who guards understanding [loves] to find good.

Buy truth and do not sell [it], wisdom and instruction and understanding.

Now if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask for [it] from God, who gives to all without reservation and not reproaching, and it will be given to him.

And he did what was right in the eyes of Yahweh, and he walked in the ways of David his ancestor and did not deviate [to] the right or [to] the left.

My foot has held on to his steps; I have kept his way, and I have not turned aside.

Our heart has not turned back, and our steps have [not] turned aside from your way.

[The] arrogant utterly deride me; I have not turned aside from your law.

To know wisdom and instruction, to understand sayings of understanding,

An intelligent {mind} will acquire knowledge, and the ear of the wise will seek knowledge.