MLV(i)
1 My son, if you will receive my words and lay up my commandments with you,
2 so as to incline your ear to wisdom and apply your heart to understanding,
3 because, if you cry after discernment and lift up your voice for understanding,
4 if you seek her as silver and search for her as for hidden treasures,
5 then you will understand the fear of Jehovah and find the knowledge of God.
6 Because Jehovah gives wisdom. Out of his mouth is knowledge and understanding. 7 He lays up sound-wisdom for the upright, a shield to those who walk in integrity, 8 that he may guard the paths of justice and preserve the way of his holy ones. 9 Then you will understand righteousness and justice and uprightness, yes, every good path.
10 Because wisdom will enter into your heart and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul, 11 discretion will watch over you, understanding will keep you, 12 to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things, 13 who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness, 14 who rejoice to do evil and delight in the perverseness of evil, 15 who are crooked in their ways and wayward in their paths, 16 to deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreign woman who flatters with her words, 17 who forsakes the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God 18 (because her house inclines to death and her paths to the dead; 19 none who go to her return again, nor do they attain to the paths of life), 20 that you may walk in the way of good men and keep the paths of the righteous.
21 Because the upright will dwell in the land and the perfect will remain in it. 22 But the wicked will be cut off from the land and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.
6 Because Jehovah gives wisdom. Out of his mouth is knowledge and understanding. 7 He lays up sound-wisdom for the upright, a shield to those who walk in integrity, 8 that he may guard the paths of justice and preserve the way of his holy ones. 9 Then you will understand righteousness and justice and uprightness, yes, every good path.
10 Because wisdom will enter into your heart and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul, 11 discretion will watch over you, understanding will keep you, 12 to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things, 13 who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness, 14 who rejoice to do evil and delight in the perverseness of evil, 15 who are crooked in their ways and wayward in their paths, 16 to deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreign woman who flatters with her words, 17 who forsakes the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God 18 (because her house inclines to death and her paths to the dead; 19 none who go to her return again, nor do they attain to the paths of life), 20 that you may walk in the way of good men and keep the paths of the righteous.
21 Because the upright will dwell in the land and the perfect will remain in it. 22 But the wicked will be cut off from the land and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.