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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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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