Dual Panel1My son, if you take my words to heart and treasure my commandments deep within you,
2giving your attention to wisdom and your mind to understanding,
3if you cry out for discernment and invoke understanding,
4if you seek for her as for silver and dig for her as for buried treasure,
5then you will understand the fear of the LORD and attain to knowledge of God.
6It is the LORD who bestows wisdom and teaches knowledge and understanding.
7Out of his store he endows the upright with ability. For those whose conduct is blameless he is a shield,
8guarding the course of justice and keeping watch over the way of his loyal servants.
9You will then understand what is right and just and keep only to the good man's path,
10for wisdom will sink into your mind, and knowledge will be your heart's delight.
11Discretion will keep watch over you, understanding will guard you,
12to save you from the ways of evildoers, from all whose talk is subversive,
13those who forsake the right road to walk in murky ways,
14who take pleasure in doing evil and exult in wicked and subversive acts,
15whose ways are crooked, whose course is devious.
16It will save you from the adulteress, from the loose woman with her smooth words,
17who has forsaken the partner of her youth and forgotten the covenant of her God;
18for her house is the way down to death, and her course leads to the land of the dead.
19None who resort to her find their way back or regain the path to life.
20See then that you follow the footsteps of the good and keep to the paths of the righteous;
21for the upright will dwell secure in the land and the blameless remain there;
22but the wicked will be cut off from the land, those who are perfidious uprooted from it.