Proverbs 2
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1My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you, 1My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you,
2listening closely to wisdom and directing your heart to understanding; 2making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding;
3furthermore, if you call out to insight and lift your voice to understanding, 3yes, if you call out for insight and 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 as for hidden treasures,
5then you will understand the fear of the LORD and discover the knowledge of God. 5then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God.
6For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding. 6For the LORD gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;
7He stores up success for the upright; He is a shield for those who live with integrity 7he stores up sound wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
8so that He may guard the paths of justice and protect the way of His loyal followers. 8guarding the paths of justice and watching over the way of his saints.
9Then you will understand righteousness, justice, and integrity--every good path. 9Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path;
10For wisdom will enter your mind, and knowledge will delight your heart. 10for wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;
11Discretion will watch over you, and understanding will guard you, 11discretion will watch over you, understanding will guard you,
12rescuing you from the way of evil-- from the one who says perverse things, 12delivering you from the way of evil, from men of perverted speech,
13from those who abandon the right paths to walk in ways of darkness, 13who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,
14from those who enjoy doing evil and celebrate perversion, 14who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perverseness of evil,
15whose paths are crooked, and whose ways are devious. 15men whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways.
16It will rescue you from a forbidden woman, from a stranger with her flattering talk, 16So you will be delivered from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words,
17who abandons the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God; 17who forsakes the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her 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 to the departed;
19None return who go to her; none reach the paths of life. 19none who go to her come back, nor do they regain 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 the good and keep to the paths of the righteous.
21For the upright will inhabit the land, and those of integrity will remain in it; 21For the upright will inhabit 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 cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.
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