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Wisdom Guards the Heart and the Path
When wisdom enters the heart, discernment becomes protective. Proverbs describes morality as a path: uprightness is a way to remain on, while evil speech and delight in wrongdoing bend a person into crooked roads and darkness. Wisdom does more than supply facts; it reshapes desire so that the heart recognizes and resists paths that lead away from righteousness.
Proverbs describes wisdom guarding a person from crooked men and dark paths; Psalm 1 likewise contrasts the counsel and way of the wicked with the enduring way of the righteous. Both texts present wisdom as protection within a two-ways moral world.
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