Proverbs 2

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¹ My son, if you would accept my words, and conceal my commandments within you,	¹ My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and wilt hide my commandments with thee,
² so that your ears may listen to wisdom, then bend your heart in order to know prudence.	² That thy ear may hearken to wisdom: Incline thy heart to know prudence:
³ For if you would call upon wisdom and bend your heart to prudence,	³ For if thou shalt call for wisdom, and incline thy heart to prudence:
⁴ if you will seek her like money, and dig for her as if for treasure,	⁴ If thou shalt seek her as money, and shalt dig for her as for a treasure:
⁵ then you will understand the fear of the Lord, and you will discover the knowledge of God.	⁵ Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and shalt find the knowledge of God.
⁶ For the Lord bestows wisdom, and out of his mouth, prudence and knowledge.	⁶ Because the Lord giveth wisdom: and out of his mouth cometh prudence and knowledge.
⁷ He will preserve the salvation of the righteous, and he will protect those who walk in simplicity:	⁷ He will keep the salvation of the righteous, and protect them that walk in simplicity.
⁸ serving the paths of justice, and guarding the ways of sanctity.	⁸ Keeping the paths of justice, and guarding the ways of saints.
⁹ Then you shall understand justice and judgment, and equity, and every good path.	⁹ Then shalt thou understand justice, and judgment, and equity, and every good path.
¹⁰ If wisdom is to enter into your heart, and if knowledge is to become pleasing to your soul,	¹⁰ If wisdom shall enter into thy heart, and knowledge please thy soul:
¹¹ then counsel must guard you, and prudence must serve you,	¹¹ Counsel shall keep thee, and prudence shall preserve thee,
¹² so that you may be rescued from the evil way, and from the man who speaks perversities,	¹² That thou mayst be delivered from the evil way, and from the man that speaketh perverse things:
¹³ from those who leave the straight path to walk in dark ways,	¹³ Who leave the right way, and walk by dark ways:
¹⁴ who rejoice when they have done evil, and who exult in the most wicked things.	¹⁴ Who are glad when they have done evil, and rejoice in most wicked things:
¹⁵ Their ways are perverse, and their steps are infamous.	¹⁵ Whose ways are perverse, and their steps infamous.
¹⁶ So may you be rescued from the foreign woman, and from the outsider, who softens her speech,	¹⁶ That thou mayst be delivered from the strange women, and from the stranger, who softeneth her words:
¹⁷ and who leaves behind the Guide of her youth,	¹⁷ And forsaketh the guide of her youth,
¹⁸ and who has forgotten the covenant of her God. For her household inclines toward death, and her paths toward Hell.	¹⁸ And hath forgotten the covenant of her God: for her house inclineth unto death, and her paths to hell.
¹⁹ All those who enter to her will not return again, nor will they take hold of the paths of life.	¹⁹ None that go in unto her shall return again, neither shall they take hold of the paths of life,
²⁰ So may you walk in the good way, and keep to the difficult paths of the just.	²⁰ That thou mayst walk in a good way: and mayst keep the paths of the just.
²¹ For those who are upright shall live upon the earth, and the simple shall continue upon it.	²¹ For they that are upright shall dwell in the earth, and the simple shall continue in it.
²² Yet truly, the impious shall perish from the earth, and those who act unjustly shall be taken away from 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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