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Proverbs 2

¹My child, learn what I teach you and never forget what I tell you to do.

²Listen to what is wise and try to understand it.

³Yes, beg for knowledge; plead for insight.

⁴Look for it as hard as you would for silver or some hidden treasure.

⁵If you do, you will know what it means to fear the LORD and you will succeed in learning about God.

⁶It is the LORD who gives wisdom; from him come knowledge and understanding.

⁷He provides help and protection for those who are righteous and honest.

⁸He protects those who treat others fairly, and guards those who are devoted to him.

⁹If you listen to me, you will know what is right, just, and fair. You will know what you should do.

¹⁰You will become wise, and your knowledge will give you pleasure.

¹¹Your insight and understanding will protect you

¹²and prevent you from doing the wrong thing. They will keep you away from people who stir up trouble by what they say---

¹³those who have abandoned a righteous life to live in the darkness of sin,

¹⁴those who find pleasure in doing wrong and who enjoy senseless evil,

¹⁵unreliable people who cannot be trusted.

¹⁶You will be able to resist any immoral woman who tries to seduce you with her smooth talk,

¹⁷who is faithless to her own husband and forgets her sacred vows.

¹⁸If you go to her house, you are traveling the road to death. To go there is to approach the world of the dead.

¹⁹No one who visits her ever comes back. He never returns to the road to life.

²⁰So you must follow the example of good people and live a righteous life.

²¹Righteous people---people of integrity---will live in this land of ours.

²²But God will snatch the wicked from the land and pull sinners out of it like plants from the ground.