1My son, take my words to heart and treasure my commandments within you. 2Pay close attention to wisdom, and let your mind and heart inner being reach for discernment. 3Call out for insight. Lift up your voice for understanding. 4Search for wisdom as if it were silver. Hunt for it as if it were hidden treasure! 5If you do these things you will have respect for Jehovah and you will find the true knowledge of God! 6Jehovah gives wisdom. From his mouth come knowledge and understanding. 7He stores up insightful soundsubstantial wisdom for the upright. He is a shield for those who walk in integrity. 8He guards those on paths of justice. He watches over the way of his godly ones. 9You will understand righteousness and justice. You will have equity and every good course in life. 10Wisdom enters your heart. Knowledge gives you pleasure. 11Discretion will protect you. Understanding will watch over you. 12It will deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perverse things. 13Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness? 14Who rejoice in doing evil? They delight in the perversity of the wicked. 15The wicked are crooked. They are devious in their ways. 16You will be able to resist any immoral woman who tries to seduce you with her smooth talk. 17She is unfaithful to her own husband and forgets her sacred vows to God. 18If you go to her house, you are traveling the road to death. To go there is to approach the dead. 19No one who visits her ever comes back. He cannot return to the road to life. 20You must follow the example of good people and live a righteous life. 21The upright will live in the land. The blameless people of integrity will remain. 22The wicked will be cut off from the land. The unfaithful will be uprooted.