Proverbs 2
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1My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;1My child, if you receive my words, and store up my commands within you,
2So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;2by making your ear attentive to wisdom, and by turning your heart to understanding,
3Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;3indeed, if you call out for discernment--raise your voice for understanding--
4If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;4if you seek it like silver, and search for it like hidden treasure,
5Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.5then you will understand how to fear the LORD, and you will discover knowledge about God.
6For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.6For the LORD gives wisdom, and from his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
7He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.7He stores up effective counsel for the upright, and is like a shield for those who live with integrity,
8He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.8to guard the paths of the righteous and to protect the way of his pious ones.
9Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.9Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity--every good way.
10When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;10For wisdom will enter your heart, and moral knowledge will be attractive to you.
11Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:11Discretion will protect you, understanding will guard you,
12To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;12to deliver you from the way of the wicked, from those speaking perversity,
13Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;13who leave the upright paths to walk on the dark ways,
14Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;14who delight in doing evil, they rejoice in perverse evil;
15Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:15whose paths are morally crooked, and who are devious in their ways;
16To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;16to deliver you from the adulteress, from the sexually loose woman who speaks flattering words;
17Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.17who leaves the husband from her younger days, and forgets her marriage covenant made before God.
18For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.18For her house sinks down to death, and her paths lead to the place of the departed spirits.
19None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.19None who go in to her will return, nor will they reach the paths of life.
20That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.20So you will walk in the way of good people, and will keep on the paths of the righteous.
21For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.21For the upright will reside in the land, and those with integrity will remain in it,
22But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.22but the wicked will be removed from the land, and the treacherous will be torn away from it.
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