For it is pleasing when you keep them in your heart and have all of them ready on your lips—a motivation for learning wisdom, establishing that internalization and fluent expression of wisdom is satisfying and useful. The phrase 'keep them in your heart' (yihyu nachonim belvavcha) describes deep integration of wisdom into one's consciousness. The theological significance involves the principle that wisdom, when absorbed, becomes part of one's character and guides speech.

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