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Proverbs 2

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

1 My child, if you will receive my sayings, and hide my commands with you,

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

2 [in order] to incline your ear toward wisdom, [then] you shall apply your heart to understanding.

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

3 For if you cry out for understanding, [if] you lift your voice for insight,

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

4 if you seek her like silver and search her out {like treasure},

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

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

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

6 For Yahweh will give 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,

7 For the upright, he stores sound judgment, a shield for those who walk uprightly,

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

8 [in order] to guard paths of justice and keep the way of his faithful [ones].

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

9 Then you will understand righteousness and justice and uprightness--every good course--

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

10 for wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasing to your soul.

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

11 Discretion will watch over you; understanding will protect you,

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

12 [in order] to deliver you from the way of evil, from a man who speaks devious things--

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

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

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

14 those who are happy to do evil, [for] they delight in [the] deviousness of evil,

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

15 {who are crooked in their ways}, and devious in their paths;

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

16 [in order] to deliver you from a strange woman, from a foreign woman [who] flatters [with] her sayings,

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

17 she who forsakes the partner of her youth and has forgotten the covenant of her God,

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

18 for her house sinks to death, and to the dead are her paths.

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

19 [Of] all who go to her, none shall return, nor do they reach paths of life.

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

20 So that you will walk on the road of those who are good, and the paths of those who are righteous you shall keep.

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

21 For those who are upright will dwell [in the] land, and those who are blameless will remain in it.

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

22 And those who are wicked will be cut off from the land, and those who are treacherous will be uprooted from it.