The Complete Jewish Bible CJB
King James Version KJV
1 My son, if you will receive my words and store my commands inside you,
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My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;
2 paying attention to wisdom inclining your mind toward understanding
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So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;
3 yes, if you will call for insight and raise your voice for discernment,
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Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;
4 if you seek it as you would silver and search for it as for hidden treasure -
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If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;
5 then you will understand the fear of ADONAI and find knowledge of God.
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Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.
6 For ADONAI gives wisdom; from his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
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For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.
7 He stores up common sense for the upright, is a shield to those whose conduct is blameless,
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He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
8 in order to guard the courses of justice and preserve the way of those faithful to him.
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He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.
9 Then you will understand righteousness, justice, fairness and every good path.
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Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.
10 For wisdom will enter your heart, knowledge will be enjoyable for you,
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When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;
11 discretion will watch over you, and discernment will guard you.
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Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:
12 They will save you from the way of evil and from those who speak deceitfully,
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To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;
13 who leave the paths of honesty to walk the ways of darkness,
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Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
14 who delight in doing evil and take joy in being stubbornly deceitful,
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Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;
15 from those whose tracks are twisted and whose paths are perverse.
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Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:
16 They will save you from a woman who is a stranger, from a loose woman with smooth talk,
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To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
17 who abandons the ruler she had in her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.
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Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
18 Her house is sinking toward death, her paths lead to the dead.
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For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
19 None who go to her return; they never regain the path to life.
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None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
20 Thus you will walk on the way of good people and keep to the paths of the righteous.
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That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.
21 For the upright will live in the land, the pure-hearted will remain there;
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For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.
22 but the wicked will be cut off from the land, the unfaithful rooted out of it.
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But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
Complete Jewish Bible Copyright 1998 by David H. Stern. Published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
The King James Version is in the public domain.