| English Standard Version | King James Bible |
| 1My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you, | 1My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee; |
| 2making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding; | 2So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; |
| 3yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding, | 3Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding; |
| 4if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures, | 4If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; |
| 5then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God. | 5Then shalt thou 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 giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding. |
| 7he stores up sound wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk in integrity, | 7He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly. |
| 8guarding the paths of justice and watching over the way of his saints. | 8He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints. |
| 9Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path; | 9Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path. |
| 10for wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul; | 10When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; |
| 11discretion will watch over you, understanding will guard you, | 11Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee: |
| 12delivering you from the way of evil, from men of perverted speech, | 12To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things; |
| 13who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness, | 13Who leave 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 to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked; |
| 15men whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways. | 15Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths: |
| 16So you will be delivered from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words, | 16To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words; |
| 17who forsakes the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God; | 17Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God. |
| 18for her house sinks down to death, and her paths to the departed; | 18For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead. |
| 19none who go to her come back, nor do they regain the paths of life. | 19None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life. |
| 20So you will walk in the way of the good and keep to the paths of the righteous. | 20That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous. |
| 21For the upright will inhabit the land, and those with integrity will remain in it, | 21For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall 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 shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it. |
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