Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible RHE
New Revised Standard NRS
1 My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and wilt hide my commandments with thee,
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My child, if you accept my words and treasure up my commandments within you,
2 That thy ear may hearken to wisdom: incline thy heart to know prudence.
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making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding;
3 For if thou shalt call for wisdom, and incline thy heart to prudence:
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if you indeed cry out for insight, and raise your voice for understanding;
4 If thou shalt seek her as money, and shalt dig for her as for a treasure:
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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 shalt 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 Because the Lord giveth wisdom: and out of his mouth cometh prudence and knowledge.
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For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;
7 He wilt keep the salvation of the righteous, and protect them that walk in simplicity,
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he stores up sound wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk blamelessly,
8 Keeping the paths of justice, and guarding the ways of saints.
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guarding the paths of justice and preserving the way of his faithful ones.
9 Then shalt thou understand justice, and judgment, and equity, and every good path.
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Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path;
10 If wisdom shall enter into thy heart, and knowledge please thy soul:
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for wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;
11 Counsel shall keep thee, and prudence shall preserve thee,
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prudence will watch over you; and understanding will guard you.
12 That thou mayst be delivered from the evil way, and from the man that speaketh perverse things:
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It will save you from the way of evil, from those who speak perversely,
13 Who leave the right way, and walk by dark ways:
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who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,
14 Who are glad when they have done evil, and rejoice in the most wicked things:
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who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perverseness of evil;
15 Whose ways are perverse, and their steps infamous.
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those whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways.
16 That thou mayst be delivered from the strange woman, and from the stranger, who softeneth her words;
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You will be saved from the loose woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words,
17 And forsaketh the guide of her youth,
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who forsakes the partner of her youth and forgets her sacred covenant;
18 And hath forgotten the covenant of her God: for her house inclineth unto death, and her paths to hell.
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for her way leads down to death, and her paths to the shades;
19 None that go in unto her, shall return again, neither shall they take hold of the paths of life.
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those who go to her never come back, nor do they regain the paths of life.
20 That thou mayst walk in a good way: and mayst keep the paths of the just.
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Therefore walk in the way of the good, and keep to the paths of the just.
21 For they that are upright, shall dwell in the earth; and the simple shall continue in it.
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For the upright will abide in the land, and the innocent will remain in it;
22 But the wicked shall be destroyed from the earth: and they that do unjustly, shall be taken 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.
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