| 2 | Proverbs | ||
| 1 | My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you, | The rewards of Wisdom. Pr.2.1-22 | |
| 2 | making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding; | ||
| 3 | yes, if you cry out for insight and raise your voice for understanding, | ||
| 4 | if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures; | ||
| 5 | then you will understand the fear of Yahweh and find the knowledge of God. | ||
| 6 | For Yahweh gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding; | ||
| 7 | he stores up sound wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk in integrity, | ||
| 8 | guarding the paths of justice and preserving the way of his saints. | ||
| 9 | Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path; | ||
| 10 | for wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul; | ||
| 11 | discretion will watch over you; understanding will guard you; | ||
| 12 | delivering you from the way of evil, from men of perverted speech, | ||
| 13 | who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness, | ||
| 14 | who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perverseness of evil; | ||
| 15 | men whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways. | ||
| 16 | You will be saved from the loose woman, from the adventuress with her smooth words, | ||
| 17 | who forsakes the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God; | ||
| 18 | for her house sinks down to death, and her paths to the shades; | ||
| 19 | none who go to her come back nor do they regain the paths of life. | ||
| 20 | So you will walk in the way of good men and keep to the paths of the righteous. | ||
| 21 | For the upright will inhabit the land, and men of integrity will remain in it; | ||
| 22 | but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be rooted out of it. | ||
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