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Trustworthy friends are a strong shelter; whoever finds one has found a treasure.
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Trustworthy friends have no price, and no one can estimate their worth.
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Trustworthy friends are life's medicine, and those who fear the Lord will find them.
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Those who fear the Lord will direct their friendships well, because they will associate with people of like mind.
Submission to Wisdom
18 My child, from your youth welcome education, and you will continue to discover Wisdom until you are gray-haired.
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Approach her like one who plows and one who sows, and wait for her good fruits. When cultivating her, you will labor a little, but you will eat her produce soon.
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Wisdom is rugged terrain to the uneducated, and the fainthearted won't persevere with her.
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She will be like a heavy stone that tests them, and they won't hesitate to throw her aside.
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Wisdom is like her name, and she won't be visible to many.
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Listen, my child, and welcome my opinion. Don't reject my advice.
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Put your feet into her shackles and your neck into her collar.