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Proverbs 2

English Standard Version ESV

1 My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you,

2 making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding;

3 yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding,

4 if you seek it like silver and search for it 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 in integrity,

8 guarding the paths of justice and watching over the way of his saints.

9 Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path;

10 for wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;

11 discretion will watch over you, understanding will guard you,

12 delivering you from the way of evil, from men of perverted speech,

13 who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,

14 who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perverseness of evil,

15 men 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,

17 who forsakes the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God;

18 for her house sinks down to death, and her paths to the departed;

19 none who go to her come back, nor do they regain the paths of life.

20 So you will walk in the way 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,

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

The Message Bible MSG

1 Good friend, take to heart what I'm telling you; collect my counsels and guard them with your life.

2 Tune your ears to the world of Wisdom; set your heart on a life of Understanding.

3 That's right - if you make Insight your priority, and won't take no for an answer,

4 Searching for it like a prospector panning for gold, like an adventurer on a treasure hunt,

5 Believe me, before you know it Fear-of-God will be yours; you'll have come upon the Knowledge of God.

6 And here's why: God gives out Wisdom free, is plainspoken in Knowledge and Understanding.

7 He's a rich mine of Common Sense for those who live well, a personal bodyguard to the candid and sincere.

8 He keeps his eye on all who live honestly, and pays special attention to his loyally committed ones.

9 So now you can pick out what's true and fair, find all the good trails!

10 Lady Wisdom will be your close friend, and Brother Knowledge your pleasant companion.

11 Good Sense will scout ahead for danger, Insight will keep an eye out for you.

12 They'll keep you from making wrong turns, or following the bad directions

13 Of those who are lost themselves and can't tell a trail from a tumbleweed,

14 These losers who make a game of evil and throw parties to celebrate perversity,

15 Traveling paths that go nowhere, wandering in a maze of detours and dead ends.

16 Wise friends will rescue you from the Temptress - that smooth-talking Seductress

17 Who's faithless to the husband she married years ago, never gave a second thought to her promises before God.

18 Her whole way of life is doomed; every step she takes brings her closer to hell.

19 No one who joins her company ever comes back, ever sets foot on the path to real living.

20 So - join the company of good men and women, keep your feet on the tried and true paths.

21 It's the men who walk straight who will settle this land, the women with integrity who will last here.

22 The corrupt will lose their lives; the dishonest will be gone for good.