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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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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