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Proverbs 2:1-15 Parallel Bible Translations
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| 1 | My son, if you receive my words and you treasure my commands within you, | My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you, | My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you, | |
| 2 | to make your ear attentive to wisdom, you incline your heart to understanding. | making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding; | turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding— | |
| 3 | For if you call out for understanding, and for insight you give forth your voice, | yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding, | indeed, if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding, | |
| 4 | if you seek her like silver, and like hidden treasures you search for her, | if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures, | and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure, | |
| 5 | then you will understand the fear of YHWH, and the knowledge of God you will find. | then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God. | then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God. | |
| 6 | For YHWH gives wisdom; from His mouth is knowledge and understanding. | For the LORD gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding; | For the LORD gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding. | |
| 7 | He stores up for the upright good sense—protection for those walking with integrity. | he stores up sound wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk in integrity, | He holds success in store for the upright, he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless, | |
| 8 | He watches over the paths of justice, and the way of His holy ones He guards. | guarding the paths of justice and watching over the way of his saints. | for he guards the course of the just and protects the way of his faithful ones. | |
| 9 | Then you will understand righteousness and justice and uprightness, every good path. | Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path; | Then you will understand what is right and just and fair—every good path. | |
| 10 | For wisdom will enter into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul. | for wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul; | For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul. | |
| 11 | Discretion will guard over you; understanding will guard you, | discretion will watch over you, understanding will guard you, | Discretion will protect you, and understanding will guard you. | |
| 12 | to snatch you from the way of evil, from the man speaking perversity— | delivering you from the way of evil, from men of perverted speech, | Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men, from men whose words are perverse, | |
| 13 | those abandoning the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness, | who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness, | who have left the straight paths to walk in dark ways, | |
| 14 | those glad to do evil, they rejoice in the perversity of evil, | who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perverseness of evil, | who delight in doing wrong and rejoice in the perverseness of evil, | |
| 15 | whose ways are crooked, and who are turning aside in their paths. | men whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways. | whose paths are crooked and who are devious in their ways. | |
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