Proverbs 2
2
Seek Treasures of Wisdom
1My son, if you accept my words and treasure my mitzvot within you,
2making your ear attentive to wisdom, inclining your heart to discernment,
3yes, if you call out for insight, lifting up your voice for discernment,
4if you seek her as silver and search for her as for hidden treasures,
5then you will know the fear of Adonai and discover the knowledge of God.
6For Adonai gives wisdom. Out of His mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
7He stores up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity.
8He guards the paths of justice, and protects the way of His kedoshim.
9Then you will discern what is right and just and fair—every good path.
10For wisdom will enter your heart and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
11Discretion will watch over you —discernment will guard you—
12to deliver you from the way of evil, from those speaking perverse things,
13who leave the straight paths to walk in ways of darkness,
14who rejoice in doing wrong and delight in the perversity of evil,
15whose paths are crooked and are devious in their ways—
16to deliver you from a seducing woman— a wayward wife with seductive words,
17who forsakes the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.
18For her house sinks down to death and her tracks to the dead.
19None who go to her return nor reach the paths of life.
20So you will walk in the way of good men and keep to the paths of the righteous.
21For the upright will dwell in the land and the blameless will remain in it.
22But the wicked will be cut off from the land and the treacherous uprooted from it.
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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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