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Proverbs 2

The Complete Jewish Bible CJB

1 My son, if you will receive my words and store my commands inside you,

2 paying attention to wisdom inclining your mind toward understanding

3 yes, if you will call for insight and raise your voice for discernment,

4 if you seek it as you would silver and search for it as for hidden treasure -

5 then you will understand the fear of ADONAI and find knowledge of God.

6 For ADONAI gives wisdom; from his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

7 He stores up common sense for the upright, is a shield to those whose conduct is blameless,

8 in order to guard the courses of justice and preserve the way of those faithful to him.

9 Then you will understand righteousness, justice, fairness and every good path.

10 For wisdom will enter your heart, knowledge will be enjoyable for you,

11 discretion will watch over you, and discernment will guard you.

12 They will save you from the way of evil and from those who speak deceitfully,

13 who leave the paths of honesty to walk the ways of darkness,

14 who delight in doing evil and take joy in being stubbornly deceitful,

15 from those whose tracks are twisted and whose paths are perverse.

16 They will save you from a woman who is a stranger, from a loose woman with smooth talk,

17 who abandons the ruler she had in her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.

18 Her house is sinking toward death, her paths lead to the dead.

19 None who go to her return; they never regain the path to life.

20 Thus you will walk on the way of good people and keep to the paths of the righteous.

21 For the upright will live in the land, the pure-hearted will remain there;

22 but the wicked will be cut off from the land, the unfaithful rooted out of it.

New King James Version NKJV

1 My son, if you receive my words, And treasure my commands within you,

2 So that you incline your ear to wisdom, And apply your heart to understanding;

3 Yes, if you cry out for discernment, And lift up your voice for understanding,

4 If you seek her as silver, And search for her as for hidden treasures;

5 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;

7 He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk uprightly;

8 He guards the paths of justice, And preserves the way of His saints.

9 Then you will understand righteousness and justice, Equity and every good path.

10 When wisdom enters your heart, And knowledge is pleasant to your soul,

11 Discretion will preserve you; Understanding will keep you,

12 To deliver you from the way of evil, From the man who speaks perverse things,

13 From those who leave the paths of uprightness To walk in the ways of darkness;

14 Who rejoice in doing evil, And delight in the perversity of the wicked;

15 Whose ways are crooked, And who are devious in their paths;

16 To deliver you from the immoral woman, From the seductress who flatters with her words,

17 Who forsakes the companion of her youth, And forgets the covenant of her God.

18 For her house leads down to death, And her paths to the dead;

19 None who go to her return, Nor do they regain the paths of life--

20 So you may walk in the way of goodness, And keep to the paths of righteousness.

21 For the upright will dwell in the land, And the blameless will remain in it;

22 But the wicked will be cut off from the earth, And the unfaithful will be uprooted from it.