Prov-02
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v1
My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you,
v2
making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding;
v3
yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding,
v4
if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures,
v5
then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God.
v6
For the LORD gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;
v7
he stores up sound wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
v8
guarding the paths of justice and watching over the way of his saints.
v9
Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path;
v10
for wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;
v11
discretion will watch over you, understanding will guard you,
v12
delivering you from the way of evil, from men of perverted speech,
v13
who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,
v14
who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perverseness of evil,
v15
men whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways.
v16
So you will be delivered from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words,
v17
who forsakes the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God;
v18
for her house sinks down to death, and her paths to the departed;
v19
none who go to her come back, nor do they regain the paths of life.
v20
So you will walk in the way of the good and keep to the paths of the righteous.
v21
For the upright will inhabit the land, and those with integrity will remain in it,
v22
but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.