To Be Determined

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So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners.

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Wisdom calls aloud in the street. She utters her voice in the public squares.

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She calls at the head of noisy places. At the entrance of the city gates, she utters her words:

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“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?

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Turn at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you. I will make known my words to you.

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Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one has paid attention;

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but you have ignored all my counsel, and wanted none of my reproof;

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I also will laugh at your disaster. I will mock when calamity overtakes you;

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when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when your disaster comes on like a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come on you.

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Then will they call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;

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because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of Yahweh.

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They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof.

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Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own schemes.

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For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.

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But whoever listens to me will dwell securely, and will be at ease, without fear of harm.”

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My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you;

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So as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;

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Yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;

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If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures:

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then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and find the knowledge of God.

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For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

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He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity;

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that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his saints.

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Then you will understand righteousness and justice, equity and every good path.

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For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.

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Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,

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to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things;

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who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;

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who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil;

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who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths:

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To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;

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who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God:

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for her house leads down to death, her paths to the dead.

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None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life:

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that you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

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For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it.

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But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.

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My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:

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for length of days, and years of life, and peace, will they add to you.

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Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

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So you will find favor, and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

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Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

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In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

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Don’t be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.

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It will be health to your body, and nourishment to your bones.

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Honor Yahweh with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase:

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so your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.

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My son, don’t despise Yahweh’s discipline, neither be weary of his reproof:

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for whom Yahweh loves, he reproves; even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.

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Happy is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gets understanding.

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For her good profit is better than getting silver, and her return is better than fine gold.

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She is more precious than rubies. None of the things you can desire are to be compared to her.

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Length of days is in her right hand. In her left hand are riches and honor.

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Her ways are ways of pleasantness. All her paths are peace.

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She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.

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By wisdom Yahweh founded the earth. By understanding, he established the heavens.

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By his knowledge, the depths were broken up, and the skies drop down the dew.

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My son, let them not depart from your eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion:

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so they will be life to your soul, and grace for your neck.

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Then you shall walk in your way securely. Your foot won’t stumble.

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When you lie down, you will not be afraid. Yes, you will lie down, and your sleep will be sweet.

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Don’t be afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it comes:

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for Yahweh will be your confidence, and will keep your foot from being taken.

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Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

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Don’t say to your neighbor, “Go, and come again; tomorrow I will give it to you,” when you have it by you.

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Don’t devise evil against your neighbor, since he dwells securely by you.

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Don’t strive with a man without cause, if he has done you no harm.

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Don’t envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways.

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For the perverse is an abomination to Yahweh, but his friendship is with the upright.

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Yahweh’s curse is in the house of the wicked, but he blesses the habitation of the righteous.

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Surely he mocks the mockers, but he gives grace to the humble.

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The wise will inherit glory, but shame will be the promotion of fools.

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Listen, sons, to a father’s instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;

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for I give you sound learning. Don’t forsake my law.

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For I was a son to my father, tender and an only child in the sight of my mother.

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He taught me, and said to me: “Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.

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Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don’t forget, neither swerve from the words of my mouth.

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Don’t forsake her, and she will preserve you. Love her, and she will keep you.

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Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding.

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Esteem her, and she will exalt you. She will bring you to honor, when you embrace her.

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She will give to your head a garland of grace. She will deliver a crown of splendor to you.”

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Listen, my son, and receive my sayings. The years of your life will be many.

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I have taught you in the way of wisdom. I have led you in straight paths.

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When you go, your steps will not be hampered. When you run, you will not stumble.

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Take firm hold of instruction. Don’t let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.

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Don’t enter into the path of the wicked. Don’t walk in the way of evil men.

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Avoid it, and don’t pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on.

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For they don’t sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

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For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

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But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light, that shines more and more until the perfect day.

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The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don’t know what they stumble over.

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My son, attend to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings.

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Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the midst of your heart.

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For they are life to those who find them, and health to their whole body.

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Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

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Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.

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Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you.

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Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established.

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Don’t turn to the right hand nor to the left. Remove your foot from evil.

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My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding: