1My son, listen to what I say,
2Pay attention to wisdom
3Call out to God to get insight;
4Search eagerly for wisdom, like you would search for silver,
5If you do that, you will understand how to revere Yahweh,
6Yahweh is the one who gives us wisdom.
7He gives good advice to those who conduct their lives as they should.
8He guards those who act justly/fairly toward others,
9If you ask God for wisdom, you will understand what is right and just [DOU] to do,
10because you will be wise in your inner being;
11If you know [PRS] how to choose what is right to do
12If you are wise [PRS], you will not do what evil people do,
13Deceitful people have stopped acting fairly/justly toward others
14They enjoy doing what is wrong;
15They ◄walk on crooked paths/always deceive others►
16If you are wise [PRS], you will also be saved from ◄immoral women/prostitutes►;
17Those women have left the husbands whom they married when they were young;
18If you go into houses of women who are like that,
19No man who ◄visits/sleeps with► a woman like that will again live harmoniously with his family.
20If you are wise, you should behave like good men behave.
21because only godly people will live in this land and receive God’s blessings;
22Wicked people will be expelled from this land,