Proverbs 2
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1My son, if you accept my words and hide my commandments within you,1My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you,
2if you incline your ear to wisdom and direct your heart to understanding,2turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding--
3if you truly call out to insight and lift your voice to understanding,3indeed, if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding,
4if you seek it like silver and search it out like hidden treasure,4and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure,
5then you will discern the fear of the LORD and discover 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 with integrity,7He holds success in store for the upright, he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless,
8to guard the paths of justice and protect the way of His saints.8for he guards the course of the just and protects the way of his faithful ones.
9Then you will discern righteousness and justice and equity—every good path.9Then you will understand what is right and just and fair--every good path.
10For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will delight your soul.10For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
11Discretion will watch over you, and understanding will guard you,11Discretion will protect you, and understanding will guard you.
12to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perversity,12Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men, from men whose words are perverse,
13from those who leave the straight paths to walk in the ways of darkness,13who have left the straight paths to walk in dark ways,
14from those who enjoy doing evil and rejoice in the twistedness of evil,14who delight in doing wrong and rejoice in the perverseness of evil,
15whose paths are crooked and whose ways are devious.15whose paths are crooked and who are devious in their ways.
16It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words16Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman, from the wayward woman with her seductive words,
17who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.17who has left the partner of her youth and ignored the covenant she made before God.
18For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits.18Surely her house leads down to death and her paths to the spirits of the dead.
19None who go to her return or negotiate the paths of life.19None who go to her return or attain the paths of life.
20So you will follow in the ways of the good, and keep to the paths of the righteous.20Thus you will walk in the ways of the good and keep to the paths of the righteous.
21For the upright will inhabit the land, and the blameless will remain in it;21For the upright will live in the land, and the blameless will remain in it;
22but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be uprooted.22but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be torn from it.
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