My son, if you will receive my words and hide my commandments with you,

yea, if you cry after knowledge and lift up your voice for understanding;

if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures,

then you shall understand the fear of Jehovah and find the knowledge of God.

When wisdom enters into your heart, and knowledge is pleasing to your soul;

He lays up sound wisdom for the righteous; He is a shield to those who walk uprightly.

Then you shall understand righteousness and judgment and honesty, every good path.

He keeps the paths of judgment, and guards the way of His saints.

judgment shall keep you, understanding shall keep you,

to deliver you from the way of the evil man, from the man who speaks wicked things;

whose ways are crooked, and are devious in their paths.

They will deliver you from the strange woman, the stranger who flatters with her words,

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

For her house bows down to death, and her paths to the dead.

those who leave the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,

who rejoice to do evil and delight in the perversities of the wicked;

who forsakes the guide of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.

so that you attend to wisdom, you shall extend your heart to understanding;

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

All who go in to her do not return, nor do they take hold of the paths of life,

in order that you may walk in the way of good and keep the paths of the righteous.

For Jehovah gives wisdom; out of His mouth come knowledge and understanding.