Proverbs 2
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1My child, if you receive my words, and store up my commands within you, 1My child, listen to what I say, and treasure my commands.
2by making your ear attentive to wisdom, and by turning your heart to understanding, 2Tune your ears to wisdom, and concentrate on understanding.
3indeed, if you call out for discernment--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 how to fear the LORD, and you will discover knowledge about 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 comes knowledge and understanding. 6For the LORD grants wisdom! From his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
7He stores up effective counsel for the upright, and is like a shield for those who live with integrity, 7He grants a treasure of common sense to the honest. He is a shield to those who walk with integrity.
8to guard the paths of the righteous and to protect the way of his pious ones. 8He guards the paths of the just and protects those who are faithful to him.
9Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity--every good way. 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 moral knowledge will be attractive to you. 10For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will fill you with joy.
11Discretion will protect you, understanding will guard you, 11Wise choices will watch over you. Understanding will keep you safe.
12to deliver you from the way of the wicked, from those speaking perversity, 12Wisdom will save you from evil people, from those whose words are twisted.
13who leave the upright paths to walk on the dark ways, 13These men turn from the right way to walk down dark paths.
14who delight in doing evil, they rejoice in perverse evil; 14They take pleasure in doing wrong, and they enjoy the twisted ways of evil.
15whose paths are morally crooked, and who are devious in their ways; 15Their actions are crooked, and their ways are wrong.
16to deliver you from the adulteress, from the sexually loose woman who speaks flattering words; 16Wisdom will save you from the immoral woman, from the seductive words of the promiscuous woman.
17who leaves the husband from her younger days, and forgets her marriage covenant made before God. 17She has abandoned her husband and ignores the covenant she made before God.
18For her house sinks down to death, and her paths lead to the place of the departed spirits. 18Entering her house leads to death; it is the road to the grave.
19None who go in to her will return, nor will they reach the paths of life. 19The man who visits her is doomed. He will never reach the paths of life.
20So you will walk in the way of good people, and will keep on the paths of the righteous. 20So follow the steps of the good, and stay on the paths of the righteous.
21For the upright will reside in the land, and those with 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 removed from the land, and the treacherous will be torn away from it. 22But the wicked will be removed from the land, and the treacherous will be uprooted.
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