Septuagint Bible w/ Apocrypha LXX
New Revised Standard w/ Apocrypha NRSA
1 son, if thou wilt receive the utterance of my commandment, and hide it with thee;
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My child, if you accept my words and treasure up my commandments within you,
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.
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making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding;
3 For it thou shalt call to wisdom, and utter thy voice for understanding;
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if you indeed cry out for insight, and raise your voice for understanding;
4 and if thou shalt seek it as silver, and search diligently for it as for treasures;
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if you seek it like silver, and search for it as for hidden treasures—
5 then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.
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then you will 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,
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For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;
7 and he treasures up salvation for them that walk uprightly: he will protect their way;
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he stores up sound wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk blamelessly,
8 that he may guard the righteous ways: and he will preserve the way of them that fear him.
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guarding the paths of justice and preserving the way of his faithful ones.
9 Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment; and shalt direct all thy course aright.
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Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path;
10 For if wisdom shall come into thine understanding, and discernment shall seem pleasing to thy soul,
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for wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;
11 good counsel shall guard thee, and holy understanding shall keep thee;
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prudence will watch over you; and understanding will guard you.
12 to deliver thee from the evil way, and from the man that speaks nothing faithfully.
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It will save you from the way of evil, from those who speak perversely,
13 Alas who forsake right paths, to walk in ways of darkness;
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who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,
14 who rejoice in evils, and delight in wicked perverseness;
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who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perverseness of evil;
15 whose paths are crooked, and their courses winding;
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those 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. son, let not evil counsel overtake thee,
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You will be saved from the loose woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words,
17 who has forsaken the instruction of her youth, and forgotten the covenant of God.
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who forsakes the partner of her youth and forgets her sacred covenant;
18 For she has fixed her house near death, and her wheels near Hades with the giants.
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for her way leads down to death, and her paths to the shades;
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.
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those who go to her never come back, nor do they regain the paths of life.
20 For had they gone in good paths, they would have found the paths of righteousness easy.
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Therefore walk in the way of the good, and keep to the paths of the just.
21 For the upright shall dwell in the earth, and the holy shall be left behind in it.
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For the upright will abide in the land, and the innocent will remain in it;
22 The paths of the ungodly shall perish out of the earth, and transgressors shall be driven away from it.
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but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.
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