1 My son, if you will receive my words, 2 So as to turn your ear to wisdom, 3 Yes, if you call out for discernment, 4 If you seek her as silver, 5 then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, 6 For Yahweh gives wisdom. 7 He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. 8 that he may guard the paths of justice, 9 Then you will understand righteousness and justice, 10 For wisdom will enter into your heart. 11 Discretion will watch over you. 12 to deliver you from the way of evil, 13 who forsake the paths of uprightness, 14 who rejoice to do evil, 15 who are crooked in their ways, 16 To deliver you from the strange woman, 17 who forsakes the friend of her youth, 18 for her house leads down to death, 19 None who go to her return again, 20 that you may walk in the way of good men, 21 For the upright will dwell in the land. 22 But the wicked will be cut off from the land.