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.2turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding--
3Cry out for insight, and ask for understanding.3indeed, if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding,
4Search for them as you would for silver; seek them like hidden treasures.4and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for 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 find 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 holds success in store for the upright, he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless,
8He guards the paths of the just and protects those who are faithful to him.8for he guards the course of the just and protects the way of his faithful ones.
9Then you will understand what is right, just, and fair, and you will find the right way to go.9Then you will understand what is right and just and fair--every good path.
10For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will fill you with joy.10For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
11Wise choices will watch over you. Understanding will keep you safe.11Discretion will protect you, and understanding will guard you.
12Wisdom will save you from evil people, from those whose words are twisted.12Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men, from men whose words are perverse,
13These men turn from the right way to walk down dark paths.13who have left the straight paths to walk in dark ways,
14They take pleasure in doing wrong, and they enjoy the twisted ways of evil.14who delight in doing wrong and rejoice in the perverseness of evil,
15Their actions are crooked, and their ways are wrong.15whose paths are crooked and who are devious in their ways.
16Wisdom will save you from the immoral woman, from the seductive words of the promiscuous woman.16Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman, from the wayward woman with her seductive words,
17She has abandoned her husband and ignores the covenant she made before God.17who has left the partner of her youth and ignored the covenant she made before God.
18Entering her house leads to death; it is the road to the grave.18Surely her house leads down to death and her paths to the spirits of the dead.
19The man who visits her is doomed. He will never reach the paths of life.19None who go to her return or attain the paths of life.
20So follow the steps of the good, and stay on the paths of the righteous.20Thus you will walk in the ways of the good 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 live in the land, and the blameless 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 unfaithful will be torn from it.
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