| Berean Study Bible | New Living Translation |
| 1My son, if you accept my words and hide my commandments within you, | 1My child, listen to what I say, and treasure my commands. |
| 2if you incline your ear to wisdom and direct your heart to understanding, | 2Tune your ears to wisdom, and concentrate on understanding. |
| 3if you truly call out to insight and lift your voice to understanding, | 3Cry out for insight, and ask for understanding. |
| 4if you seek it like silver and search it out like hidden treasure, | 4Search for them as you would for silver; seek them like hidden treasures. |
| 5then you will discern the fear of the LORD and discover the knowledge of God. | 5Then you will understand what it means to fear the LORD, and you will gain knowledge of God. |
| 6For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding. | 6For the LORD grants wisdom! From his mouth come knowledge and understanding. |
| 7He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk with integrity, | 7He grants a treasure of common sense to the honest. He is a shield to those who walk with integrity. |
| 8to guard the paths of justice and protect the way of His saints. | 8He guards the paths of the just and protects those who are faithful to him. |
| 9Then you will discern righteousness and justice and equity—every good path. | 9Then you will understand what is right, just, and fair, and you will find the right way to go. |
| 10For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will delight your soul. | 10For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will fill you with joy. |
| 11Discretion will watch over you, and understanding will guard you, | 11Wise choices will watch over you. Understanding will keep you safe. |
| 12to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perversity, | 12Wisdom will save you from evil people, from those whose words are twisted. |
| 13from those who leave the straight paths to walk in the ways of darkness, | 13These men turn from the right way to walk down dark paths. |
| 14from those who enjoy doing evil and rejoice in the twistedness of evil, | 14They take pleasure in doing wrong, and they enjoy the twisted ways of evil. |
| 15whose paths are crooked and whose ways are devious. | 15Their actions are crooked, and their ways are wrong. |
| 16It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words | 16Wisdom will save you from the immoral woman, from the seductive words of the promiscuous woman. |
| 17who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God. | 17She has abandoned her husband and ignores the covenant she made before God. |
| 18For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits. | 18Entering her house leads to death; it is the road to the grave. |
| 19None who go to her return or negotiate the paths of life. | 19The man who visits her is doomed. He will never reach the paths of life. |
| 20So you will follow in the ways of the good, and keep to the paths of the righteous. | 20So follow the steps of the good, and stay on the paths of the righteous. |
| 21For the upright will inhabit the land, and the blameless will remain in it; | 21For only the godly will live in the land, and those with integrity will remain in it. |
| 22but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be uprooted. | 22But the wicked will be removed from the land, and the treacherous will be uprooted. |
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