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\v 1 Listen, children, listen to what I am teaching you.
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\q2 If you pay attention, you will learn about what it means to understand.
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\v 2 The lessons I give to you are good teaching, given in order.
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\q2 So do not refuse to learn the lessons I teach you.
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\v 3 When I was my father's boy,
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\q1 and the only child of my mother,
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\v 4 my father told me, "Put my words deep within you,
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\q1 obey my orders to you,
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\q2 and you will have life.
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\v 5 Hold on to what is wise and whatever helps you understand,
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\q1 and do not forget the lessons I taught you and do not throw away the insights I spoke to you.
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\v 6 Do not run away from the lessons which the wise teach you,
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\q2 because if you become wise, wisdom will keep you safe.
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\q1 Love wisdom and it will guard your life.
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\v 7 The most important thing you can do is to study the principles of wisdom
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\q2 and spend all you own so you can grow more and more in your understanding.
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\v 8 Wisdom is to be loved more than anything that is valuable, and she will raise you to a high position—
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\q2 and wisdom will honor you when you show how much you love it.
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\v 9 When you have attained wisdom, it will be like a beautiful wreath of honor on your head;
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\q2 she will give you a beautiful crown."
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\v 10 Hear, my son, listen and understand what I say to you—
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\q1 do this, and you will live a long life.
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\v 11 I directed you in the way you should walk and to use the wisdom you were taught;
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\q2 I led you by the hand down the roads, roads that are the right way for you to go.
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\v 12 When you live, you do not have anyone to blame; if you live wisely,
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\q2 when you use all your effort, you will succeed .
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\v 13 Remember the lessons that discipline taught you,
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\q2 and do not let them go.
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\q1 Guard them; for you live your life by them.
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\v 14 Do not do what wicked people do, nor be with them;
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\q1 do not be with people who do evil things.
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\v 15 Stay far from those ways;
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\q2 turn another way and go on another road.
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\v 16 Evil people cannot rest until they have done something that Yahweh said they must not do.
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\q2 They will not rest until they force someone to fall, someone who was doing well until they came along.
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\v 17 They get their strength, and they are fed by doing what is wrong;
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\q and they are intoxicated by hurting others; they get drunk on it.
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\v 18 The path taken by those who do right grows brighter and brigher, like the rising of the sun at dawn,
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\q2 and it shines brighter and brighter until it is as full as the light of day.
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\v 19 The actions of the wicked are like the darkness—
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\q2 they stumble because they cannot see what makes them fall.
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\v 20 My son, pay attention to what I am saying to you.
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\q2 Pay attention to these lessons I am teaching you.
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\v 21 Keep reading them over and over,
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\q1 and keep them deep within you.
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\v 22 For my words bring a message of life to those who pay attention to them,
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\q and their message brings health to the entire body.
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\v 23 Protect your heart with all your strength and guard what you love;
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\q2 guard it, for it becomes a fountain overflowing with life.
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\v 24 Make it your aim to keep any lying speech, any deceptive talk away from you;
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\q2 and put away from you anything that might corrode their values or harm them with useless talk.
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\v 25 Look straight ahead because you are focused on what is good and right,
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\q2 and do not turn aside neither to the right or the left.
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\v 26 Take care about where you will go, and take care to be sure that the way is safe;
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\q2 then you will know what to expect along the way.
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\v 27 Do not leave the straight road by turning to the left or to the right,
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\q1 and do not follow the way that leads to evil.
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