Proverbs 2
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1My child, if you receive my words, and store up my commands within you, 1My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you,
2by making your ear attentive to wisdom, and by turning your heart to understanding, 2turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding--
3indeed, if you call out for discernment--raise your voice for understanding--3indeed, if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding,
4if you seek it like silver, and search for it like hidden treasure, 4and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure,
5then you will understand how to fear the LORD, and you will discover knowledge about God. 5then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God.
6For the LORD gives wisdom, and from his mouth comes knowledge and understanding. 6For the LORD gives 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 holds success in store for the upright, he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless,
8to guard the paths of the righteous and to protect the way of his pious ones. 8for he guards the course of the just and protects the way of his faithful ones.
9Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity--every good way. 9Then you will understand what is right and just and fair--every good path.
10For wisdom will enter your heart, and moral knowledge will be attractive to you. 10For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
11Discretion will protect you, understanding will guard you, 11Discretion will protect you, and understanding will guard you.
12to deliver you from the way of the wicked, from those speaking perversity, 12Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men, from men whose words are perverse,
13who leave the upright paths to walk on the dark ways, 13who have left the straight paths to walk in dark ways,
14who delight in doing evil, they rejoice in perverse evil; 14who delight in doing wrong and rejoice in the perverseness of evil,
15whose paths are morally crooked, and who are devious in their ways; 15whose paths are crooked and who are devious in their ways.
16to deliver you from the adulteress, from the sexually loose woman who speaks flattering words; 16Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman, from the wayward woman with her seductive words,
17who leaves the husband from her younger days, and forgets her marriage covenant made before 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 paths lead to the place of the departed spirits. 18Surely her house leads down to death and her paths to the spirits of the dead.
19None who go in to her will return, nor will they reach the paths of life. 19None who go to her return or attain the paths of life.
20So you will walk in the way of good people, and will keep on 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 reside in the land, and those with integrity will remain in it, 21For the upright will live in the land, and the blameless 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 cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be torn from it.
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