Proverbs 2
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1My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you, 1My child, if you receive my words, and store up my commands within you,
2listening closely to wisdom and directing your heart to understanding; 2by making your ear attentive to wisdom, and by turning your heart to understanding,
3furthermore, if you call out to insight and lift your voice to understanding, 3indeed, if you call out for discernment--raise your voice for understanding--
4if you seek it like silver and search for it like hidden treasure, 4if you seek it like silver, and search for it like hidden treasure,
5then you will understand the fear of the LORD and discover the knowledge of God. 5then you will understand how to fear the LORD, and you will discover knowledge about God.
6For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding. 6For the LORD gives wisdom, and from his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
7He stores up success for the upright; He is a shield for those who live with integrity 7He stores up effective counsel for the upright, and is like a shield for those who live with integrity,
8so that He may guard the paths of justice and protect the way of His loyal followers. 8to guard the paths of the righteous and to protect the way of his pious ones.
9Then you will understand righteousness, justice, and integrity--every good path. 9Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity--every good way.
10For wisdom will enter your mind, and knowledge will delight your heart. 10For wisdom will enter your heart, and moral knowledge will be attractive to you.
11Discretion will watch over you, and understanding will guard you, 11Discretion will protect you, understanding will guard you,
12rescuing you from the way of evil-- from the one who says perverse things, 12to deliver you from the way of the wicked, from those speaking perversity,
13from those who abandon the right paths to walk in ways of darkness, 13who leave the upright paths to walk on the dark ways,
14from those who enjoy doing evil and celebrate perversion, 14who delight in doing evil, they rejoice in perverse evil;
15whose paths are crooked, and whose ways are devious. 15whose paths are morally crooked, and who are devious in their ways;
16It will rescue you from a forbidden woman, from a stranger with her flattering talk, 16to deliver you from the adulteress, from the sexually loose woman who speaks flattering words;
17who abandons the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God; 17who leaves the husband from her younger days, and forgets her marriage covenant made before God.
18for her house sinks down to death and her ways to the land of the departed spirits. 18For her house sinks down to death, and her paths lead to the place of the departed spirits.
19None return who go to her; none reach the paths of life. 19None who go in to her will return, nor will they reach the paths of life.
20So follow the way of good people, and keep to the paths of the righteous. 20So you will walk in the way of good people, and will keep on the paths of the righteous.
21For the upright will inhabit the land, and those of integrity will remain in it; 21For the upright will reside in the land, and those with integrity will remain in it,
22but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous uprooted from it. 22but the wicked will be removed from the land, and the treacherous will be torn away from it.
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