2:1: My son, if you will receive my words, And store up my commandments within you; |
2:2: So as to turn your ear to wisdom, And apply your heart to understanding; |
2:3: Yes, if you call out for discernment, And lift up your voice for understanding; |
2:4: If you seek her as silver, And search for her as for hidden treasures: |
2:5: Then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, And find the knowledge of God. |
2:6: For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding. |
2:7: He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity; |
2:8: That he may guard the paths of justice, And preserve the way of his saints. |
2:9: Then you will understand righteousness and justice, Equity and every good path. |
2:10: For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul. |
2:11: Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you, |
2:12: To deliver you from the way of evil, From the men who speak perverse things; |
2:13: Who forsake the paths of uprightness, To walk in the ways of darkness; |
2:14: Who rejoice to do evil, And delight in the perverseness of evil; |
2:15: Who are crooked in their ways, And wayward in their paths: |
2:16: To deliver you from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner who flatters with her words; |
2:17: Who forsakes the friend of her youth, And forgets the covenant of her God: |
2:18: For her house leads down to death, Her paths to the dead. |
2:19: None who go to her return again, Neither do they attain to the paths of life: |
2:20: That you may walk in the way of good men, And keep the paths of the righteous. |
2:21: For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it. |
2:22: But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it. |
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