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To know wisdom and instruction, To discern the sayings of understanding,
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A wise person will hear and increase in learning, And a person of understanding will acquire wise counsel,
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Make your ear attentive to wisdom; Incline your heart to understanding.
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For if you cry out for insight, And raise your voice for understanding;
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For the Lord gives wisdom; From His mouth come knowledge and understanding.
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Discretion will watch over you, Understanding will guard you,
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Trust in the Lord with all your heart And do not lean on your own understanding.
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Blessed is a person who finds wisdom, And one who obtains understanding.
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The Lord founded the earth by wisdom, He established the heavens by understanding.
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A Father’s Instruction
Listen, my sons, to the instruction of a father, And pay attention so that you may gain understanding,
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Acquire wisdom! Acquire understanding! Do not forget nor turn away from the words of my mouth.
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The beginning of wisdom is: Acquire wisdom; And with all your possessions, acquire understanding.
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Pitfalls of Immorality
My son, pay attention to my wisdom, Incline your ear to my understanding,
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Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” And call understanding your intimate friend,
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The Commendation of Wisdom
Does not wisdom call, And understanding raise her voice?
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Advice is mine and sound wisdom; I am understanding, power is mine.
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“Whoever is naive, let him turn in here!” To him who lacks understanding she says,
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Abandon your foolishness and live, And proceed in the way of understanding.”
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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
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A woman of foolishness is boisterous, She has a lack of understanding and knows nothing.
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“Whoever is naive, let him turn in here,” And to him who lacks understanding she says,
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The lips of the righteous feed many, But fools die for lack of understanding.
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Doing wickedness is like sport to a fool, And so is wisdom to a person of understanding.
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One who despises his neighbor lacks sense, But a person of understanding keeps silent.
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Good understanding produces favor, But the way of the treacherous is their own disaster.
