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knowledge?
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Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make
known my words unto you.
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Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
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But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
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I also will laugh at
your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
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When your fear cometh as desolation, and
your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
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Then shall
they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
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For
that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the L
ORD
:
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They would none of my
counsel: they despised all my reproof.
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Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and
be filled with their own devices.
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For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the
prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
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But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and
shall be quiet from fear of evil.
CHAPTER 2
My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;
2
So that thou incline
thine ear unto wisdom,
and
apply thine heart to understanding;
3
Yea, if thou criest after knowledge,
and
liftest up thy voice for understanding;
4
If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as
for
hid treasures;
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Then shalt thou understand the fear of the L
ORD
, and find the knowledge of God.
6
For the L
ORD
giveth wisdom: out of his mouth
cometh
knowledge and understanding.
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He layeth
up sound wisdom for the righteous:
he is
a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
8
He keepeth the
paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.
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Then shalt thou understand righteousness,
and judgment, and equity;
yea,
every good path.
10
When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;
11
Discretion
shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:
12
To deliver thee from the way of the evil
man,
from the man that speaketh froward things;
13
Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the
ways of darkness;
14
Who rejoice to do evil,
and
delight in the frowardness of the wicked;
15
Whose
ways
are
crooked, and
they
froward in their paths:
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To deliver thee from the strange woman,
even
from the stranger
which
flattereth with her words;
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Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and
forgetteth the covenant of her God.
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For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the
dead.
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None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
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That thou
mayest walk in the way of good
men,
and keep the paths of the righteous.
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For the upright shall
dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.
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But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth,
and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
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