| International Standard Version | New International Version |
| 1My son, if you accept my words, and treasure my instructions — | 1My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you, |
| 2making your ear attentive to wisdom, and turning your heart to understanding— | 2turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding-- |
| 3if, indeed, you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding, | 3indeed, if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding, |
| 4if you seek it like silver and search for it like hidden treasure, | 4and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure, |
| 5then you will understand the fear of the LORD and learn to know God. | 5then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God. |
| 6For the LORD gives wisdom, and from his mouth come knowledge and understanding. | 6For the LORD gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding. |
| 7He stores up sound wisdom for the upright and is a shield to those who walk in integrity— | 7He holds success in store for the upright, he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless, |
| 8guarding the paths of the just and protecting the way of his faithful ones. | 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 upright—every good path. | 9Then you will understand what is right and just and fair--every good path. |
| 10For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul. | 10For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul. |
| 11Discretion will protect you; understanding will watch over you, | 11Discretion will protect you, and understanding will guard you. |
| 12delivering you from the way of evil, from men who speak perverse things, | 12Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men, from men whose words are perverse, |
| 13and from those who abandon the right path to travel along the ways of darkness; | 13who have left the straight paths to walk in dark ways, |
| 14who delight in doing evil, and rejoice in the perverseness of evil; | 14who delight in doing wrong and rejoice in the perverseness of evil, |
| 15whose paths are crooked and who are devious in their ways, | 15whose paths are crooked and who are devious in their ways. |
| 16delivering you from the adulteress, from the immoral woman with her seductive words, | 16Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman, from the wayward woman with her seductive words, |
| 17someone who abandoned the companion of her youth and forgot the covenant of her God. | 17who has left the partner of her youth and ignored the covenant she made before God. |
| 18For her house leads down to death, and her paths down to the realm of the dead. | 18Surely her house leads down to death and her paths to the spirits of the dead. |
| 19None who go to her return, nor do they reach the paths of life. | 19None who go to her return or attain the paths of life. |
| 20This is how you will walk in the way of good men and will keep to the paths of the righteous. | 20Thus you will walk in the ways of the good and keep to the paths of the righteous. |
| 21For the upright will live in the land, and people of 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 cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be uprooted from it. | 22but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be torn from it. |
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