Proverbs 2
2
The Benefit of Wisdom
1My son,
if you take my words ⌞to heart⌟
and treasure my commands within you,
2if you pay close attention to wisdom,
and let your mind reach for understanding,
3if indeed you call out for insight,
if you ask aloud for understanding,
4if you search for wisdom as if it were money
and hunt for it as if it were hidden treasure,
5then you will understand the fear of the Lord
and you will find the knowledge of God.
6The Lord gives wisdom.
From his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
7He has reserved priceless wisdom for decent people.
He is a shield for those who walk in integrity
8in order to guard those on paths of justice
and to watch over the way of his godly ones.
9Then you will understand what is right and just and fair—
every good course ⌞in life⌟.
10Wisdom will come into your heart.
Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
11Foresight will protect you.
Understanding will guard you.
12 ⌞Wisdom will⌟ save you
from the way of evil,
from the person who speaks devious things,
13from those who abandon the paths of righteousness
to walk the ways of darkness,
14from those who enjoy doing evil,
from those who find joy in the deviousness of evil.
15Their paths are crooked.
Their ways are devious.
16 ⌞Wisdom will⌟ also save you
from an adulterous woman,
from a loose woman with her smooth talk,
17who leaves ⌞her husband,⌟ the closest friend of her youth,
and forgets her marriage vows to her God.
18Her house sinks down to death.
Her ways lead to the souls of the dead.
19None who have sex with her come back.
Nor do they ever reach the paths of life.
20So walk in the way of good people
and stay on the paths of righteous people.
21Decent people will live in the land.
People of integrity will remain in it.
22But wicked people will be cut off from the land
and treacherous people will be torn #2:22 Or “will be swept away.” from it.
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Proverbs 2
2
The Benefits of Wisdom
1My child, if you will receive#Or “take, seize” my sayings,
and hide my commands with you,
2in order to incline your ear toward wisdom,
then you shall apply your heart to understanding.
3For if you cry out for understanding,#Or “call to understanding”
if you lift#Or “carry, give” your voice for insight,
4if you seek her like silver
and search her out like treasure,#Literally “like the treasures”
5then you will understand the fear of Yahweh,
and the knowledge of God you will find.
6For Yahweh will give wisdom;
from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
7For the upright, he stores#Or “hides, keeps” sound judgment, a shield for those who walk uprightly,
8in order to guard paths of justice
and keep#Or “preserve, guard, watch” the way of his faithful ones.
9Then you will understand righteousness and justice
and uprightness—every good course—
10for wisdom will enter your heart,
and knowledge will be pleasing to your soul.#Or “inner self”
11Discretion will watch over you;
understanding will protect you,
12in order to deliver you from the way of evil,#Or “evildoer”
from a man who speaks devious things—
13those who forsake the paths of uprightness
to walk in ways of darkness,
14those who are happy to do evil,
for they delight in the deviousness of evil,
15who are crooked in their ways,#Literally “that in their ways are crooked”
and devious in their paths;
16in order to deliver you from a strange woman,
from a foreign woman who flatters#Or “makes smooth” with her sayings,
17she who forsakes the partner of her youth
and has forgotten the covenant of her God,
18for her house sinks to death,
and to the dead#Or “Rephaim” are her paths.
19Of all who go to her, none shall return,
nor do they reach paths of life.
20So that you will walk on the road of those who are good,
and the paths of those who are righteous you shall keep.
21For those who are upright will dwell in the land,#Or “earth”
and those who are blameless#Or “innocent” will remain in it.
22And those who are wicked will be cut off from the land,
and those who are treacherous will be uprooted from it.
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