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Proverbs 3:5-15 Amplified Bible (AMP)

5. Lean on, trust in, and be confident in the Lord with all your heart and mind and do not rely on your own insight or understanding.

6. In all your ways know, recognize, and acknowledge Him, and He will direct and make straight and plain your paths.

7. Be not wise in your own eyes; reverently fear and worship the Lord and turn [entirely] away from evil. [Prov. 8:13.]

8. It shall be health to your nerves and sinews, and marrow and moistening to your bones.

9. Honor the Lord with your capital and sufficiency [from righteous labors] and with the firstfruits of all your income; [Deut. 26:2; Mal. 3:10; Luke 14:13, 14.]

10. So shall your storage places be filled with plenty, and your vats shall be overflowing with new wine. [Deut. 28:8.]

11. My son, do not despise or shrink from the chastening of the Lord [His correction by punishment or by subjection to suffering or trial]; neither be weary of or impatient about or loathe or abhor His reproof, [Ps. 94:12; Heb. 12:5, 6; Rev. 3:19.]

12. For whom the Lord loves He corrects, even as a father corrects the son in whom he delights.

13. Happy (blessed, fortunate, enviable) is the man who finds skillful and godly Wisdom, and the man who gets understanding [drawing it forth from God's Word and life's experiences],

14. For the gaining of it is better than the gaining of silver, and the profit of it better than fine gold.

15. Skillful and godly Wisdom is more precious than rubies; and nothing you can wish for is to be compared to her. [Job 28:12-18.]