Learn what I teach you my son, and never forget what i tell you to do. Listen to what is wise and try to understand it. Yes beg for knowledge; plead for insight. Look for it as hard as you would for silver or some hidden treasure. If you do, you will know what it means to fear the Lord and you will succeed in learning about God. It is the Lord who gives wisdom; from him come knowledge and understanding. He provides help and protection for righteous, honest men. He protects those who treat others fairly, and guards those who are devoted to him.
If you listen to me, you will know what is right,just, and fair. You will know what you should do. You will become wise, and your knowledge will give you pleasure. Your insight and understanding will protect you and will prevent you from doing wrong things. They will keep you away from people who stir up trouble by what they say- men who have abandoned a righteous life to live in the darkness of the sin, men who find pleasure in doing wrong and who enjoy senseless evil, unreliable men who cannot be trusted.
You will be able to resist any immoral woman who try to seduce you with her smooth talk, who is failthless to her own husband and forgets her sacred vows. If you go to her house, you are travelling the road to death. To go there is to approach the world of dead. No one who visits her ever come back. He never returns to road of life. Righteous men- men of integrity- will live in this land of ours. But God will snatch wicked men from the land and pull sinners out of it like plants from the ground.
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