Proverbs 2
2
The Benefits of Wisdom
1My child,#2:1 Hebrew My son. listen to what I say,
and treasure my commands.
2Tune your ears to wisdom,
and concentrate on understanding.
3Cry out for insight,
and ask for understanding.
4Search for them as you would for silver;
seek them like hidden treasures.
5Then you will understand what it means to fear the Lord,
and you will gain knowledge of God.
6For the Lord grants wisdom!
From his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
7He grants a treasure of common sense to the honest.
He is a shield to those who walk with integrity.
8He guards the paths of the just
and protects those who are faithful to him.
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 knowledge will fill you with joy.
11Wise choices will watch over you.
Understanding will keep you safe.
12Wisdom will save you from evil people,
from those whose words are twisted.
13These men turn from the right way
to walk down dark paths.
14They take pleasure in doing wrong,
and they enjoy the twisted ways of evil.
15Their actions are crooked,
and their ways are wrong.
16Wisdom will save you from the immoral woman,
from the seductive words of the promiscuous woman.
17She has abandoned her husband
and ignores the covenant she made before God.
18Entering her house leads to death;
it is the road to the grave.#2:18 Hebrew to the spirits of the dead.
19The man who visits her is doomed.
He will never reach the paths of life.
20So follow the steps of the good,
and stay on the paths of the righteous.
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 uprooted.
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Proverbs 2
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1My son, if you will receive my words,
and store up my commandments within you,
2so as to turn your ear to wisdom,
and apply your heart to understanding;
3yes, if you call out for discernment,
and lift up your voice for understanding;
4if you seek her as silver,
and search for her as for hidden treasures;
5then you will understand the fear of Yahweh,
and find the knowledge of God.#2:5 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).
6For Yahweh gives wisdom.
Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
7He lays up sound wisdom for the upright.
He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
8that he may guard the paths of justice,
and preserve the way of his saints.
9Then you will understand righteousness and justice,
equity and every good path.
10For wisdom will enter into your heart.
Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
11Discretion will watch over you.
Understanding will keep you,
12to deliver you from the way of evil,
from the men who speak perverse things,
13who forsake the paths of uprightness,
to walk in the ways of darkness,
14who rejoice to do evil,
and delight in the perverseness of evil,
15who are crooked in their ways,
and wayward in their paths,
16to deliver you from the strange woman,
even from the foreigner who flatters with her words,
17who forsakes the friend of her youth,
and forgets the covenant of her God;
18for her house leads down to death,
her paths to the departed spirits.
19None who go to her return again,
neither do they attain to the paths of life.
20Therefore walk in the way of good men,
and keep the paths of the righteous.
21For the upright will dwell in the land.
The perfect will remain in it.
22But the wicked will be cut off from the land.
The treacherous will be rooted out of it.
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