English Standard Version | English Standard Version |
1My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you, | 1My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you, |
2making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding; | 2making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding; |
3yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding, | 3yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding, |
4if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures, | 4if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures, |
5then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God. | 5then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God. |
6For the LORD gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding; | 6For the LORD gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding; |
7he stores up sound wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk in integrity, | 7he stores up sound wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk in integrity, |
8guarding the paths of justice and watching over the way of his saints. | 8guarding the paths of justice and watching over the way of his saints. |
9Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path; | 9Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path; |
10for wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul; | 10for wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul; |
11discretion will watch over you, understanding will guard you, | 11discretion will watch over you, understanding will guard you, |
12delivering you from the way of evil, from men of perverted speech, | 12delivering you from the way of evil, from men of perverted speech, |
13who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness, | 13who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness, |
14who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perverseness of evil, | 14who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perverseness of evil, |
15men whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways. | 15men whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways. |
16So you will be delivered from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words, | 16So you will be delivered from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words, |
17who forsakes the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God; | 17who forsakes the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God; |
18for her house sinks down to death, and her paths to the departed; | 18for her house sinks down to death, and her paths to the departed; |
19none who go to her come back, nor do they regain the paths of life. | 19none who go to her come back, nor do they regain the paths of life. |
20So you will walk in the way of the good and keep to the paths of the righteous. | 20So you will walk in the way of the good and keep to the paths of the righteous. |
21For the upright will inhabit the land, and those with integrity will remain in it, | 21For the upright will inhabit the land, and those with integrity will remain in it, |
22but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be rooted out of it. | 22but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be rooted out of it. |
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