- 1. My sonne, if thou wylt receaue my wordes, and lay vp my commaundementes within thee,
- 2. That thou wylt encline thine eares vnto wisdome: applye thine heart then to vnderstandyng.
- 3. For if thou cryest after wisdome, and cryest for knowledge:
- 4. If thou seekest for her as for siluer, and searchest for her as for treasures:
- 5. Then shalt thou vnderstand the feare of the Lorde, and finde the knowledge of God.
- 6. For the Lorde geueth wisdome, out of his mouth commeth knowledge and vnderstandyng.
- 7. He stirreth vp health for the righteous: and defendeth them that walke vprightly,
- 8. That they may kepe the right path: and he preserueth the way of such as do serue him with godlinesse.
- 9. Then shalt thou vnderstande righteousnesse, and iudgement, and equitie, yea and euery good path.
- 10. When wisdome entreth into thine heart, and thy soule deliteth in knowledge:
- 11. Then shall counsayle preserue thee, and vnderstandyng shall kepe thee,
- 12. That thou mayest be deliuered from the euyll way, and from the man that speaketh frowarde thynges:
- 13. From such as leaue the wayes of righteousnesse, to walke in the wayes of darknesse:
- 14. Which reioyce in doyng naught, and delite in the wickednesse of the euyll:
- 15. Whose wayes are croked, and they frowarde in their pathes.
- 16. That thou mayest be deliuered also from the straunge woman, and from her that is not thine owne, which geueth sweete wordes,
- 17. Forsaketh the husbande of her youth, & forgetteth the couenaunt of her God.
- 18. For her house is enclined vnto death, and her pathes vnto hell.
- 19. All they that go in vnto her, come not agayne, neither take they holde of the way of lyfe.
- 20. Therfore walke thou in the way of such as be vertuous, & kepe the pathes of the righteous.
- 21. For the iust shal dwell in the lande, and they that be perfect shall remayne in it.
- 22. But the vngodly shall be cut of from the earth: and the wicked doers shalbe rooted out of it.
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