1) My son! if you accept my words and keep my commandments to you,
2) so that you will make your ear attentive to wisdom and incline your heart to meditation;
3) if you call on knowledge and appeal to reason;
4) if you search for it like silver and search for it like treasure,
5) then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find knowledge of God.
6) For the Lord gives wisdom; from His mouth - knowledge and understanding;
7) He preserves salvation for the righteous; He is a shield to those who walk uprightly;
8) He guards the paths of righteousness and preserves the path of His saints.
9) Then you will understand righteousness and justice and uprightness, every good path.
10) When wisdom enters your heart and knowledge delights your soul,
11) then prudence will protect you, reason will protect you,
12) to save you from the evil way, from the man who tells lies,
13) from those who leave the straight paths to walk in the paths of darkness;
14) from those who rejoice in doing evil, who delight in evil debauchery,
15) whose ways are crooked, and who wander in their paths;
16) to save you from another’s wife, from a stranger who softens her speech,
17) who forsook the leader of her youth and forgot the covenant of her God.
18) Her house leads to death, and her paths to the dead;
19) none of those who entered her return and enter the path of life.
20) Therefore walk in the way of the good and keep the paths of the righteous,
21) because the righteous will dwell on the earth, and the blameless will remain in it;
22) And the wicked will be destroyed from the earth, and the treacherous will be uprooted from it.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru