Proverbs 2
2
The Value of Wisdom
1My son, if you receive my words,
And #(Prov. 4:21)treasure my commands within you,
2So that you incline your ear to wisdom,
And apply your heart to understanding;
3Yes, if you cry out for discernment,
And lift up your voice for understanding,
4#(Prov. 3:14)If you seek her as silver,
And search for her as for hidden treasures;
5#(James 1:5, 6)Then you will understand the fear of the Lord,
And find the knowledge of God.
6#1 Kin. 3:9, 12; (Job 32:8; James 1:5)For the Lord gives wisdom;
From His mouth come knowledge and understanding;
7He stores up sound wisdom for the upright;
#(Ps. 84:11); Prov. 30:5He is a shield to those who walk uprightly;
8He guards the paths of justice,
And #(1 Sam. 2:9); Ps. 66:9preserves the way of His saints.
9Then you will understand righteousness and justice,
Equity and every good path.
10When wisdom enters your heart,
And knowledge is pleasant to your soul,
11Discretion will preserve you;
#Prov. 4:6; 6:22Understanding will keep you,
12To deliver you from the way of evil,
From the man who speaks perverse things,
13From those who leave the paths of uprightness
To #Ps. 82:5; Prov. 4:19; (John 3:19, 20)walk in the ways of darkness;
14#Prov. 10:23; Jer. 11:15; (Rom. 1:32)Who rejoice in doing evil,
And delight in the perversity of the wicked;
15#Ps. 125:5; (Prov. 21:8)Whose ways are crooked,
And who are devious in their paths;
16To deliver you from #Prov. 5:20; 6:24; 7:5the immoral woman,
#Prov. 5:3From the seductress who flatters with her words,
17Who forsakes the companion of her youth,
And forgets the covenant of her God.
18For #Prov. 7:27her house leads down to death,
And her paths to the dead;
19None who go to her return,
Nor do they regain the paths of life—
20So you may walk in the way of goodness,
And keep to the paths of righteousness.
21For the upright will dwell in the #Ps. 37:3land,
And the blameless will remain in it;
22But the wicked will be cut off from the earth,
And the unfaithful will be uprooted from it.
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Proverbs 2
2
The Rewards of Wisdom
1Learn what I teach you, my child, and never forget what I tell you to do. 2Listen to what is wise and try to understand it. 3Yes, beg for knowledge; plead for insight. 4Look for it as hard as you would for silver or some hidden treasure. 5If you do, you will know what it means to fear the LORD and you will succeed in learning about God. 6It is the LORD who gives wisdom; from him come knowledge and understanding. 7He provides help and protection for those who are righteous and honest. 8He protects those who treat others fairly, and guards those who are devoted to him.
9If you listen to me, you will know what is right, just, and fair. You will know what you should do. 10You will become wise, and your knowledge will give you pleasure. 11Your insight and understanding will protect you 12and prevent you from doing the wrong thing. They will keep you away from people who stir up trouble by what they say — 13those who have abandoned a righteous life to live in the darkness of sin, 14those who find pleasure in doing wrong and who enjoy senseless evil, 15unreliable people who cannot be trusted.
16You will be able to resist any immoral woman who tries to seduce you with her smooth talk, 17who is faithless to her own husband and forgets her sacred vows. 18If you go to her house, you are travelling the road to death. To go there is to approach the world of the dead. 19No one who visits her ever comes back. He never returns to the road to life. 20So you must follow the example of good people and live a righteous life. 21Righteous people — people of integrity — will live in this land of ours. 22But God will snatch the wicked from the land and pull sinners out of it like plants from the ground.
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