Proverbs 2:9-22 Parallel Bible Translations

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9 Then you shall understand justice and judgment, and equity, and 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 If wisdom is to enter into your heart, and if knowledge is to become pleasing 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 then counsel must guard you, and prudence must serve you, discretion will watch over you, understanding will guard you, Discretion will protect you, and understanding will guard you.
12 so that you may be rescued from the evil way, and from the man who speaks perversities, 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 from those who leave the straight path to walk in dark ways, 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 who rejoice when they have done evil, and who exult in the most wicked things. 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 Their ways are perverse, and their steps are infamous. men whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways. whose paths are crooked and who are devious in their ways.
16 So may you be rescued from the foreign woman, and from the outsider, who softens her speech, So you will be delivered from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words, Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman, from the wayward woman with her seductive words,
17 and who leaves behind the Guide of her youth, who forsakes the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God; who has left the partner of her youth and ignored the covenant she made before God.
18 and who has forgotten the covenant of her God. For her household inclines toward death, and her paths toward Hell. for her house sinks down to death, and her paths to the departed; Surely her house leads down to death and her paths to the spirits of the dead.
19 All those who enter to her will not return again, nor will they take hold of the paths of life. none who go to her come back, nor do they regain the paths of life. None who go to her return or attain the paths of life.
20 So may you walk in the good way, and keep to the difficult paths of the just. So you will walk in the way of the good and keep to the paths of the righteous. Thus you will walk in the ways of the good and keep to the paths of the righteous.
21 For those who are upright shall live upon the earth, and the simple shall continue upon it. For the upright will inhabit the land, and those with integrity will remain in it, For the upright will live in the land, and the blameless will remain in it;
22 Yet truly, the impious shall perish from the earth, and those who act unjustly shall be taken away from it. but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be rooted out of it. but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be torn from it.
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