3Call out to God to get insight; plead with him to help you to understand more of what he wants you to know.
4Search eagerly for wisdom, like you would search for silver, like you would search for a treasure that someone has hidden.
5If you do that, you will understand how to revere Yahweh, and you will succeed in knowing God.
6Yahweh is the one who gives us wisdom. He is the one who tells us things that we need to know and understand.
7He gives good advice to those who conduct their lives as they should. He protects MET those who do what is right.
8He guards those who act justly/fairly toward others, and he watches over those who are faithful/loyal to him.
9If you ask God for wisdom, you will understand what is right and just DOU to do, and you will know the right way to conduct your life,
10because you will be wise in your inner being; and knowing what God wants you to know will cause you to be joyful.
11If you know PRS how to choose what is right to do and if you understand what God wants you to do, God will protect you and guard you and keep you safe.
12If you are wise PRS, you will not do what evil people do, and you will not believe what deceitful people say.
13Deceitful people have stopped acting fairly/justly toward others and ◄walk on dark and evil paths/do what evil people do► MET.
14They enjoy doing what is wrong; they like to do what is evil and to deceive people.
15They ◄walk on crooked paths/always deceive others► and are always dishonest.
16If you are wise PRS, you will also be saved from ◄immoral women/prostitutes►; you will not pay attention when adulterous women try to ◄seduce/entice you by what they say.►
17Those women have left the husbands whom they married when they were young; they have disregarded the solemn promise they made to God not to commit adultery.