Proverbs 2:13-22 Parallel Bible Translations

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13 Alas for those who forsake right paths, to walk in 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 who rejoice in evils, and delight in wicked perverseness; 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 paths are crooked, and their courses winding; men whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways. whose paths are crooked and who are devious in their ways.
16 to remove thee far from the straight way, and to estrange thee from a righteous purpose. My son, let not evil counsel overtake thee, 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 of her who has forsaken the instruction of her youth, and forgotten the covenant of God. 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 For she has fixed her house near death, and guided her wheels near Hades with the giants. 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 None that go by her shall return, neither shall they take hold of right paths, for they are not apprehended of the years 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 For had they gone in good paths, they would have found the paths of righteousness easy. 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 the upright shall dwell in the earth, and the holy shall be left behind in 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 The paths of the ungodly shall perish out of the earth, and transgressors shall be driven 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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