| International Standard Version | New Living Translation |
| 1My son, if you accept my words, and treasure my instructions — | 1My child, listen to what I say, and treasure my commands. |
| 2making your ear attentive to wisdom, and turning your heart to understanding— | 2Tune your ears to wisdom, and concentrate on understanding. |
| 3if, indeed, you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding, | 3Cry out for insight, and ask for understanding. |
| 4if you seek it like silver and search for it like hidden treasure, | 4Search for them as you would for silver; seek them like hidden treasures. |
| 5then you will understand the fear of the LORD and learn to know God. | 5Then you will understand what it means to fear the LORD, and you will gain knowledge of God. |
| 6For the LORD gives wisdom, and from his mouth come knowledge and understanding. | 6For the LORD grants wisdom! From his mouth come knowledge and understanding. |
| 7He stores up sound wisdom for the upright and is a shield to those who walk in integrity— | 7He grants a treasure of common sense to the honest. He is a shield to those who walk with integrity. |
| 8guarding the paths of the just and protecting the way of his faithful ones. | 8He guards the paths of the just and protects those who are faithful to him. |
| 9Then you will understand what is right, just, and upright—every good path. | 9Then you will understand what is right, just, and fair, and you will find the right way to go. |
| 10For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul. | 10For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will fill you with joy. |
| 11Discretion will protect you; understanding will watch over you, | 11Wise choices will watch over you. Understanding will keep you safe. |
| 12delivering you from the way of evil, from men who speak perverse things, | 12Wisdom will save you from evil people, from those whose words are twisted. |
| 13and from those who abandon the right path to travel along the ways of darkness; | 13These men turn from the right way to walk down dark paths. |
| 14who delight in doing evil, and rejoice in the perverseness of evil; | 14They take pleasure in doing wrong, and they enjoy the twisted ways of evil. |
| 15whose paths are crooked and who are devious in their ways, | 15Their actions are crooked, and their ways are wrong. |
| 16delivering you from the adulteress, from the immoral woman with her seductive words, | 16Wisdom will save you from the immoral woman, from the seductive words of the promiscuous woman. |
| 17someone who abandoned the companion of her youth and forgot the covenant of her God. | 17She has abandoned her husband and ignores the covenant she made before God. |
| 18For her house leads down to death, and her paths down to the realm of the dead. | 18Entering her house leads to death; it is the road to the grave. |
| 19None who go to her return, nor do they reach the paths of life. | 19The man who visits her is doomed. He will never reach the paths of life. |
| 20This is how you will walk in the way of good men and will keep to the paths of the righteous. | 20So follow the steps of the good, and stay on the paths of the righteous. |
| 21For the upright will live in the land, and people of integrity will remain in it. | 21For only the godly will live in 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 uprooted from it. | 22But the wicked will be removed from the land, and the treacherous will be uprooted. |
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