1My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee; 2So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, [and] apply thine heart to understanding; 3Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, [and] liftest up thy voice for understanding; 4If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as [for] hid treasures; 5Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God. 6For the Lorde giueth wisdome, out of his mouth commeth knowledge and vnderstanding. 7He preserueth the state of the righteous: he is a shielde to them that walke vprightly, 8That they may keepe the wayes of iudgement: and he preserueth the way of his Saintes) 9Then shalt thou vnderstand righteousnes, and iudgement, and equitie, and euery good path. 10When wisdome entreth into thine heart, and knowledge deliteth thy soule, 11Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee: 12And deliuer thee from the euill way, and from the man that speaketh froward things, 13Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness; 14Who rejoice to do evil, [and] delight in the frowardness of the wicked; 15Whose wayes are crooked and they are lewde in their paths. 16To deliver thee from the strange woman, [even] from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words; 17Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God. 18For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead. 19All they that goe vnto her, returne not againe, neither take they holde of the wayes of life. 20Therefore walke thou in the way of good men, and keepe the wayes of the righteous. 21For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it. 22But the wicked shalbe cut off from ye earth, and the transgressours shalbe rooted out of it.