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Proverbs 2

Septuagint Bible w/ Apocrypha LXX

1 son, if thou wilt receive the utterance of my commandment, and hide it with thee;

2 thine ear shall hearken to wisdom; thou shalt also apply thine heart to understanding, and shalt apply it to the instruction of thy son.

3 For it thou shalt call to wisdom, and utter thy voice for understanding;

4 and if thou shalt seek it as silver, and search diligently for it as for treasures;

5 then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.

6 For the Lord gives wisdom; and from his presence knowledge and understanding,

7 and he treasures up salvation for them that walk uprightly: he will protect their way;

8 that he may guard the righteous ways: and he will preserve the way of them that fear him.

9 Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment; and shalt direct all thy course aright.

10 For if wisdom shall come into thine understanding, and discernment shall seem pleasing to thy soul,

11 good counsel shall guard thee, and holy understanding shall keep thee;

12 to deliver thee from the evil way, and from the man that speaks nothing faithfully.

13 Alas who forsake right paths, to walk in ways of darkness;

14 who rejoice in evils, and delight in wicked perverseness;

15 whose paths are crooked, and their courses winding;

16 to remove thee far from the straight way, and to estrange thee from a righteous purpose. son, let not evil counsel overtake thee,

17 who has forsaken the instruction of her youth, and forgotten the covenant of God.

18 For she has fixed her house near death, and her wheels near Hades with the giants.

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.

20 For had they gone in good paths, they would have found the paths of righteousness easy.

21 For the upright shall dwell in the earth, and the holy shall be left behind in it.

22 The paths of the ungodly shall perish out of the earth, and transgressors shall be driven away from it.

New International Version NIV

1 My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you,

2 turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding—

3 indeed, if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding,

4 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 LORDand find the knowledge of God.

6 For the LORD gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.

7 He holds success in store for the upright, he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless,

8 for he guards the course of the just and protects the way of his faithful ones.

9 Then you will understand what is right and just and fair—every good path.

10 For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.

11 Discretion will protect you, and understanding will guard you.

12 Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men, from men whose words are perverse,

13 who have left the straight paths to walk in dark ways,

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

15 whose paths are crooked and who are devious in their ways.

16 Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman, from the wayward woman with her seductive words,

17 who has left the partner of her youth and ignored the covenant she made before God.

18 Surely her house leads down to death and her paths to the spirits of the dead.

19 None who go to her return or attain the paths of life.

20 Thus you will walk in the ways of the good and keep to the paths of the righteous.

21 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 unfaithful will be torn from it.