⁶⁶ Teach me good judgment and knowledge,
    for I believe in your commandments.

2 My child, if you accept my words
    and treasure up my commandments within you,^(A)
2 making your ear attentive to wisdom
    and inclining your heart to understanding,
³ if you indeed cry out for insight
    and raise your voice for understanding,
⁴ if you seek it like silver
    and search for it as for hidden treasures—^(B)
5 then you will understand the fear of the Lord
    and find the knowledge of God.^(C)
6 For the Lord gives wisdom;
    from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;^(D)
7 he stores up sound wisdom for the upright;
    he is a shield to those who walk blamelessly,^(E)
8 guarding the paths of justice
    and preserving the way of his faithful ones.^(F)
9 Then you will understand righteousness and justice
    and equity, every good path,^(G)

¹²⁸ Truly I direct my steps by all your precepts;^[a]
    I hate every false way.^(A)

² The spirit of the Lord shall rest on him,
    the spirit of wisdom and understanding,
    the spirit of counsel and might,
    the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.^(A)
3 His delight shall be in the fear of the Lord.

³⁴ Give me understanding, that I may keep your law
    and observe it with my whole heart.^(A)