| 章 |
| 2:1 |
My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;
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| 2:2 |
So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, [and] apply thine heart to understanding;
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| 2:3 |
Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, [and] liftest up thy voice for understanding;
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| 2:4 |
If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as [for] hid treasures;
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| 2:5 |
Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.
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| 2:6 |
For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth [cometh] knowledge and understanding.
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| 2:7 |
He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: [he is] a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
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| 2:8 |
He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.
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| 2:9 |
Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; [yea], every good path.
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| 2:10 |
When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;
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| 2:11 |
Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:
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| 2:12 |
To deliver thee from the way of the evil [man], from the man that speaketh froward things;
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| 2:13 |
Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
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| 2:14 |
Who rejoice to do evil, [and] delight in the frowardness of the wicked;
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| 2:15 |
Whose ways [are] crooked, and [they] froward in their paths:
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| 2:16 |
To deliver thee from the strange woman, [even] from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words;
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| 2:17 |
Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
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| 2:18 |
For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
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| 2:19 |
None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
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| 2:20 |
That thou mayest walk in the way of good [men], and keep the paths of the righteous.
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| 2:21 |
For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.
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| 2:22 |
But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
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