Proverbs 2
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1My child, listen to what I say, and treasure my commands.1My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you,
2Tune your ears to wisdom, and concentrate on understanding.2listening closely to wisdom and directing your heart to understanding;
3Cry out for insight, and ask for understanding.3furthermore, if you call out to insight and lift your voice to understanding,
4Search for them as you would for silver; seek them like hidden treasures.4if you seek it like silver and search for it like hidden treasure,
5Then you will understand what it means to fear the LORD, and you will gain knowledge of God.5then you will understand the fear of the LORD and discover the knowledge of God.
6For the LORD grants wisdom! From his mouth come knowledge and understanding.6For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.
7He grants a treasure of common sense to the honest. He is a shield to those who walk with integrity.7He stores up success for the upright; He is a shield for those who live with integrity
8He guards the paths of the just and protects those who are faithful to him.8so that He may guard the paths of justice and protect the way of His loyal followers.
9Then you will understand what is right, just, and fair, and you will find the right way to go.9Then you will understand righteousness, justice, and integrity--every good path.
10For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will fill you with joy.10For wisdom will enter your mind, and knowledge will delight your heart.
11Wise choices will watch over you. Understanding will keep you safe.11Discretion will watch over you, and understanding will guard you,
12Wisdom will save you from evil people, from those whose words are twisted.12rescuing you from the way of evil-- from the one who says perverse things,
13These men turn from the right way to walk down dark paths.13from those who abandon the right paths to walk in ways of darkness,
14They take pleasure in doing wrong, and they enjoy the twisted ways of evil.14from those who enjoy doing evil and celebrate perversion,
15Their actions are crooked, and their ways are wrong.15whose paths are crooked, and whose ways are devious.
16Wisdom will save you from the immoral woman, from the seductive words of the promiscuous woman.16It will rescue you from a forbidden woman, from a stranger with her flattering talk,
17She has abandoned her husband and ignores the covenant she made before God.17who abandons the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God;
18Entering her house leads to death; it is the road to the grave.18for her house sinks down to death and her ways to the land of the departed spirits.
19The man who visits her is doomed. He will never reach the paths of life.19None return who go to her; none reach the paths of life.
20So follow the steps of the good, and stay on the paths of the righteous.20So follow the way of good people, and keep to the paths of the righteous.
21For only the godly will live in the land, and those with integrity will remain in it.21For the upright will inhabit the land, and those of integrity will remain in it;
22But the wicked will be removed from the land, and the treacherous will be uprooted.22but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous uprooted from it.
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