Proverbs 2
2
Rewards of Wisdom
1My child, believe what I say.
And remember what I command you.
2Listen to wisdom.
Try with all your heart to gain understanding.
3Cry out for wisdom.
Beg for understanding.
4Search for it as you would for silver.
Hunt for it like hidden treasure.
5Then you will understand what it means to respect the Lord.
Then you will begin to know God.
6Only the Lord gives wisdom.
Knowledge and understanding come from him.
7He stores up wisdom for those who are honest.
Like a shield he protects those who are innocent.
8He guards those who are fair to others.
He protects those who are loyal to him.
9Then you will understand what is honest and fair and right.
You will understand what is good to do.
10You will have wisdom in your heart.
And knowledge will be pleasing to you.
11Good sense will protect you.
Understanding will guard you.
12It will keep you from doing evil.
It will save you from people whose words are bad.
13Such people do not do what is right.
They do what is evil.
14They enjoy doing wrong.
They are happy to do what is crooked and evil.
15What they do is wrong.
Their ways are dishonest.
16It will save you from the unfaithful wife
who tries to lead you into adultery with pleasing words.
17Such women leave the husbands they married when they were young.
They forget the promise they made before God.
18If you go to her house, you are on your way to death.
What she does leads to death.
19No one who goes to her comes back.
He will not continue to live.
20But wisdom will help you be a good person.
It will help you do what is right.
21Those who are honest will stay in the land.
Those who are innocent will remain in it.
22But evil people will be removed from the land.
The unfaithful will be thrown out of it.
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Proverbs 2
2
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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