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Get wisdom,[a] get understanding!
    Do not forget or turn aside from the words of my mouth.

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Footnotes

  1. 4:5, 7 Get wisdom: the same Hebrew word “to get” can mean to acquire merchandise and to acquire a wife (18:22; 31:10); both meanings are in keeping with Proverbs’ metaphors of acquiring wisdom over gold and silver and of acquiring wisdom as a personified woman, a wife.

Get wisdom,(A) get understanding;
    do not forget my words or turn away from them.

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(A)Get wisdom; get (B)insight;
    do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth.

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(A)Get wisdom! Get understanding!
Do not forget, nor turn away from the words of my mouth.

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