Proverbs 2
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1My son, if you accept my words and hide my commandments within you,1My son, if you accept my words, and treasure my instructions —
2if you incline your ear to wisdom and direct your heart to understanding,2making your ear attentive to wisdom, and turning your heart to understanding—
3if you truly call out to insight and lift your voice to understanding,3if, indeed, you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding,
4if you seek it like silver and search it out like hidden treasure,4if you seek it like silver and search for it like hidden treasure,
5then you will discern the fear of the LORD and discover the knowledge of God.5then you will understand the fear of the LORD and learn to know God.
6For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.6For the LORD gives wisdom, and from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
7He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk with integrity,7He stores up sound wisdom for the upright and is a shield to those who walk in integrity—
8to guard the paths of justice and protect the way of His saints.8guarding the paths of the just and protecting the way of his faithful ones.
9Then you will discern righteousness and justice and equity—every good path.9Then you will understand what is right, just, and upright—every good path.
10For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will delight your soul.10For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
11Discretion will watch over you, and understanding will guard you,11Discretion will protect you; understanding will watch over you,
12to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perversity,12delivering you from the way of evil, from men who speak perverse things,
13from those who leave the straight paths to walk in the ways of darkness,13and from those who abandon the right path to travel along the ways of darkness;
14from those who enjoy doing evil and rejoice in the twistedness of evil,14who delight in doing evil, and rejoice in the perverseness of evil;
15whose paths are crooked and whose ways are devious.15whose paths are crooked and who are devious in their ways,
16It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words16delivering you from the adulteress, from the immoral woman with her seductive words,
17who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.17someone who abandoned the companion of her youth and forgot the covenant of her God.
18For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits.18For her house leads down to death, and her paths down to the realm of the dead.
19None who go to her return or negotiate the paths of life.19None who go to her return, nor do they reach the paths of life.
20So you will follow in the ways of the good, and keep to the paths of the righteous.20This is how you will walk in the way of good men and will keep to the paths of the righteous.
21For the upright will inhabit the land, and the blameless will remain in it;21For the upright will live in the land, and people of integrity will remain in it.
22but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be uprooted.22But the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be uprooted from it.
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