Mishlei (Pro) 2
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1My son, if you will receive my words
and store my commands inside you,
2paying attention to wisdom
inclining your mind toward understanding —
3yes, if you will call for insight
and raise your voice for discernment,
4if you seek it as you would silver
and search for it as for hidden treasure —
5then you will understand the fear of Adonai
and find knowledge of God.
6For Adonai gives wisdom;
from his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
7He stores up common sense for the upright,
is a shield to those whose conduct is blameless,
8in order to guard the courses of justice
and preserve the way of those faithful to him.
9Then you will understand righteousness, justice,
fairness and every good path.
10For wisdom will enter your heart,
knowledge will be enjoyable for you,
11discretion will watch over you,
and discernment will guard you.
12They will save you from the way of evil
and from those who speak deceitfully,
13who leave the paths of honesty
to walk the ways of darkness,
14who delight in doing evil
and take joy in being stubbornly deceitful,
15from those whose tracks are twisted
and whose paths are perverse.
16They will save you from a woman who is a stranger,
from a loose woman with smooth talk,
17who abandons the ruler she had in her youth
and forgets the covenant of her God.
18Her house is sinking toward death,
her paths lead to the dead.
19None who go to her return;
they never regain the path to life.
20Thus you will walk on the way of good people
and keep to the paths of the righteous.
21For the upright will live in the land,
the pure-hearted will remain there;
22but the wicked will be cut off from the land,
the unfaithful rooted out of it.
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1My son, if thou wilt receive my words,
And lay up my commandments with thee;
2So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom,
And apply thine heart to understanding;
3Yea, if thou cry after discernment,
And lift up thy voice for understanding;
4If thou seek her as silver,
And search for her as for hid treasures;
5Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD,
And find the knowledge of God.
6For the LORD giveth wisdom;
Out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding:
7He layeth up sound wisdom for the upright,
He is a shield to them that walk in integrity;
8That he may guard the paths of judgement,
And preserve the way of his saints.
9Then shalt thou understand righteousness and judgement,
And equity, yea, every good path.
10For wisdom shall enter into thine heart,
And knowledge shall be pleasant unto thy soul;
11Discretion shall watch over thee,
Understanding shall keep thee:
12To deliver thee from the way of evil,
From the men that speak froward things;
13Who forsake the paths of uprightness,
To walk in the ways of darkness;
14Who rejoice to do evil,
And delight in the frowardness of evil;
15Who are crooked in their ways,
And perverse in their paths:
16To deliver thee from the strange woman,
Even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
17Which forsaketh the friend of her youth,
And forgetteth the covenant of her God:
18For her house inclineth unto death,
And her paths unto the dead:
19None that go unto her return again,
Neither do they attain unto the paths of life:
20That thou mayest walk in the way of good men,
And keep the paths of the righteous.
21For the upright shall dwell in the land,
And the perfect shall remain in it.
22But the wicked shall be cut off from the land,
And they that deal treacherously shall be rooted out of it.
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