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 you receive my words and treasure my commands,
² so that your ears may listen to wisdom, then bend your heart in order to know prudence.	² Turning your ear to wisdom, inclining your heart to understanding;
³ For if you would call upon wisdom and bend your heart to prudence,	³ Yes, if you call to intelligence, and to understanding raise your voice;
⁴ if you will seek her like money, and dig for her as if for treasure,	⁴ If you seek her like silver, and like hidden treasures search her out:
⁵ then you will understand the fear of the Lord, and you will discover the knowledge of God.	⁵ Then will you understand the fear of the LORD; the knowledge of God you will find;
⁶ For the Lord bestows wisdom, and out of his mouth, prudence and knowledge.	⁶ For the LORD gives wisdom, from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;
⁷ He will preserve the salvation of the righteous, and he will protect those who walk in simplicity:	⁷ He has counsel in store for the upright, he is the shield of those who walk honestly,
⁸ serving the paths of justice, and guarding the ways of sanctity.	⁸ Guarding the paths of justice, protecting the way of his pious ones.
⁹ Then you shall understand justice and judgment, and equity, and every good path.	⁹ Then you will understand rectitude and justice, honesty, every good path;
¹⁰ If wisdom is to enter into your heart, and if knowledge is to become pleasing to your soul,	¹⁰ For wisdom will enter your heart, knowledge will please your soul,
¹¹ then counsel must guard you, and prudence must serve you,	¹¹ Discretion will watch over you, understanding will guard you;
¹² so that you may be rescued from the evil way, and from the man who speaks perversities,	¹² Saving you from the way of evil men, from men of perverse speech,
¹³ from those who leave the straight path to walk in dark ways,	¹³ Who leave the straight paths to walk in the way of darkness,
¹⁴ who rejoice when they have done evil, and who exult in the most wicked things.	¹⁴ Who delight in doing evil, rejoice in perversity;
¹⁵ Their ways are perverse, and their steps are infamous.	¹⁵ Whose ways are crooked, and devious their paths;
¹⁶ So may you be rescued from the foreign woman, and from the outsider, who softens her speech,	¹⁶ Saving you from the wife of another, from the adulteress with her smooth words,
¹⁷ and who leaves behind the Guide of her youth,	¹⁷ Who forsakes the companion of her youth and forgets the pact with her God;
¹⁸ and who has forgotten the covenant of her God. For her household inclines toward death, and her paths toward Hell.	¹⁸ For her path sinks down to death, and her footsteps lead to the shades;
¹⁹ All those who enter to her will not return again, nor will they take hold of the paths of life.	¹⁹ None who enter thereon come back again, or gain the paths of life.
²⁰ So may you walk in the good way, and keep to the difficult paths of the just.	²⁰ Thus you may walk in the way of good men, and keep to 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 the upright will dwell in the land, the honest will remain 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 will be cut off from the land, the faithless will be rooted out of it.

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