My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you (NIV)
MY SON, if you will receive my words and treasure up my commandments within you (AMP)
My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee; (KJV)
Indeed, if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding (NIV)
Yes, if you cry out for insight and raise your voice for understanding (AMP)
Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding; (KJV)
And if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure (NIV)
If you seek [Wisdom] as for silver and search for skillful and godly Wisdom as for hidden treasures (AMP)
If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; (KJV)
Then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God. (NIV)
Then you will understand the reverent and worshipful fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of [our omniscient] God. [Prov. 1:7.] (AMP)
Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God. (KJV)
For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul. (NIV)
For skillful and godly Wisdom shall enter into your heart, and knowledge shall be pleasant to you. (AMP)
When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; (KJV)
He holds success in store for the upright, he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless (NIV)
He hides away sound and godly Wisdom and stores it for the righteous (those who are upright and in right standing with Him); He is a shield to those who walk uprightly and in integrity (AMP)
He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly. (KJV)
Then you will understand what is right and just and fair – every good path. (NIV)
Then you will understand righteousness, justice, and fair dealing [in every area and relation]; yes, you will understand every good path. (AMP)
Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path. (KJV)
For he guards the course of the just and protects the way of his faithful ones. (NIV)
That He may guard the paths of justice; yes, He preserves the way of His saints. [I Sam. 2:9; Ps. 66:8, 9.] (AMP)
He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints. (KJV)
Discretion will protect you, and understanding will guard you. (NIV)
Discretion shall watch over you, understanding shall keep you (AMP)
Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee: (KJV)
Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men, from men whose words are perverse (NIV)
To deliver you from the way of evil and the evil men, from men who speak perverse things and are liars (AMP)
To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things; (KJV)
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