Proverbs 2
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1My son, if you accept what I say and value my instructions, 2if you pay attention to wisdom and really try to understand; 3if you cry out for insight and call loudly for help in understanding; 4if you look for it as if it were silver and search for it as if it were hidden treasure; 5then you will understand how to relate to the Lord and discover the truth about God.
6The Lord is the source of wisdom; what he says provides knowledge that makes sense. 7He gives good judgment to those who live right; he defends those who have good sense. 8He supports those who act fairly and protects those who trust in him. 9Then you will be able to recognize what is right and just and fair, in fact all that is good in the way you should live. 10For wisdom will fill your mind, and knowledge will make you happy. 11Good decisions will keep you on track; thinking logically will keep you safe.
12Doing this will save you from the ways of evil, from men who tell twisted lies, 13who turn away from following what is right to walk down paths of darkness. 14They happily do wrong; they love how twisted evil is. 15They live crooked lives doing deceitful things.
16Doing this will also save you from a woman who acts immorally,#2:16. “A woman who acts immorally”: literally “a strange woman.” from a woman who like a prostitute#2:16. “A woman who like a prostitute”: literally “a foreign woman.” It is thought that this comes from the idea that prostitutes were often women from other nations, tries to seduce you with flattering words. 17Such a woman has left her husband she married when she was young, forgetting the promises she made before God. 18What happens in her house leads to death; following her way leads to the grave. 19No one who goes to her comes back; they don't ever find the way back to life again.
20So you should follow the way of the good, and make sure you stay on the paths of those who do right. 21For only people who live right will live in the land; only honest people will remain there. 22But the wicked will be thrown out of the land; those who are untrustworthy will be pulled out by the roots.
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Proverbs 2
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1 My son, if you would accept my words, and conceal my commandments within you,
2 so that your ears may listen to wisdom, then bend your heart in order to know prudence.
3 For if you would call upon wisdom and bend your heart to prudence,
4 if you will seek her like money, and dig for her as if for treasure,
5 then you will understand the fear of the Lord, and you will discover the knowledge of God.
6 For the Lord bestows wisdom, and out of his mouth, prudence and knowledge.
7 He will preserve the salvation of the righteous, and he will protect those who walk in simplicity:
8 serving the paths of justice, and guarding the ways of sanctity.
9 Then you shall understand justice and judgment, and equity, and every good path.
10 If wisdom is to enter into your heart, and if knowledge is to become pleasing to your soul,
11 then counsel must guard you, and prudence must serve you,
12 so that you may be rescued from the evil way, and from the man who speaks perversities,
13 from those who leave the straight path to walk in dark ways,
14 who rejoice when they have done evil, and who exult in the most wicked things.
15 Their ways are perverse, and their steps are infamous.
16 So may you be rescued from the foreign woman, and from the outsider, who softens her speech,
17 and who leaves behind the Guide of her youth,
18 and who has forgotten the covenant of her God. For her household inclines toward death, and her paths toward Hell.
19 All those who enter to her will not return again, nor will they take hold of the paths of life.
20 So may you walk in the good way, and keep to the difficult paths of the just.
21 For those who are upright shall live upon the earth, and the simple shall continue upon it.
22 Yet truly, the impious shall perish from the earth, and those who act unjustly shall be taken away from it.
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