Proverbs 2 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you, My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee; My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you,
2 making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding; So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding—
3 yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding, Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding; indeed, if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding,
4 if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures, If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid 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 the LORD and find the knowledge of God. Then shalt thou 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 the LORD gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding; For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding. For the LORD gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
7 he stores up sound wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk in integrity, He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly. He holds success in store for the upright, he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless,
8 guarding the paths of justice and watching over the way of his saints. He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth 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 equity, every good path; Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path. Then you will understand what is right and just and fair—every good path.
10 for wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul; When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
11 discretion will watch over you, understanding will guard you, Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee: Discretion will protect you, and understanding will guard you.
12 delivering you from the way of evil, from men of perverted speech, To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things; Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men, from men whose words are perverse,
13 who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness, Who leave 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 in doing evil and delight in the perverseness of evil, Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked; who delight in doing wrong and rejoice in the perverseness of evil,
15 men whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways. Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths: whose paths are crooked and who are devious in their ways.
16 So you will be delivered from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words, To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words; Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman, from the wayward woman with her seductive words,
17 who forsakes the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God; Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God. who has left the partner of her youth and ignored the covenant she made before God.
18 for her house sinks down to death, and her paths to the departed; For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead. Surely her house leads down to death and her paths to the spirits of the dead.
19 none who go to her come back, nor do they regain the paths of life. None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life. None who go to her return or attain the paths of life.
20 So you will walk in the way of the good and keep to the paths of the righteous. That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep 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 the upright will inhabit the land, and those with integrity will remain in it, For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it. For the upright will live in the land, and the blameless will remain in it;
22 but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be rooted out of it. But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall 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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