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Proverbs 2

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

1 My child, learn what I teach you and never forget what I tell you to do.

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

2 Listen to what is wise and try to understand it.

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

3 Yes, beg for knowledge; plead for insight.

4 and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure,

4 Look for it as hard as you would for silver or some hidden treasure.

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

5 If you do, you will know what it means to fear the Lord and you will succeed in learning about God.

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

6 It is the Lord who gives wisdom; from him come knowledge and understanding.

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

7 He provides help and protection for those who are righteous and honest.

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

8 He protects those who treat others fairly, and guards those who are devoted to him.

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

9 If you listen to me, you will know what is right, just, and fair. You will know what you should do.

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

10 You will become wise, and your knowledge will give you pleasure.

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

11 Your insight and understanding will protect you

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

12 and prevent you from doing the wrong thing. They will keep you away from people who stir up trouble by what they say -

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

13 those who have abandoned a righteous life to live in the darkness of sin,

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

14 those who find pleasure in doing wrong and who enjoy senseless evil,

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

15 unreliable people who cannot be trusted.

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

16 You will be able to resist any immoral woman who tries to seduce you with her smooth talk,

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

17 who is faithless to her own husband and forgets her sacred vows.

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

18 If you go to her house, you are traveling the road to death. To go there is to approach the world of the dead.

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

19 No one who visits her ever comes back. He never returns to the road to life.

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

20 So you must follow the example of good people and live a righteous life.

21 For the upright will live in the land, and the blameless will remain in it;

21 Righteous people - people of integrity - will live in this land of ours.

22 but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be torn from it.

22 But God will snatch the wicked from the land and pull sinners out of it like plants from the ground.