VIN(i)
1 My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you,
2 so as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;
3 if, indeed, you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding,
4 If you seek it as for silver And search for it as for buried treasures,
5 then you will understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.
6 For the LORD gives wisdom, and from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
7 He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
8 guarding the paths of the just and protecting the way of his faithful ones.
9 Then you will understand what is right, just, and upright every good path.
10 For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
11 Discretion will protect you; understanding will watch over you,
12 to rescue you from the way of evil - from the man who words perversions:
13 Who leave the right way, and walk by dark ways:
14 who delight in doing evil, and rejoice in the perverseness of evil;
15 whose paths are crooked and who are devious in their ways,
16 delivering you from the adulteress, from the immoral woman with her seductive words,
17 who forsakes the prince of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.
18 For her house leads down to death, and her paths down to the realm of the dead.
19 None who go to her return, nor do they reach the paths of life.
20 That you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.
21 For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the blameless shall remain in it
22 But the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be uprooted from it.