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Proverbs 2

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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