| 章 |
| 2:1 |
My son, if you will receive my sayings, And treasure my commandments within you,
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| 2:2 |
Make your ear attentive to wisdom, Incline your heart to understanding;
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| 2:3 |
For if you cry for discernment, Lift your voice for understanding;
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| 2:4 |
If you seek her as silver, And search for her as for hidden treasures;
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| 2:5 |
Then you will discern the fear of the LORD, And discover the knowledge of God.
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| 2:6 |
For the LORD gives wisdom; From His mouth [come] knowledge and understanding.
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| 2:7 |
He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; [He is] a shield to those who walk in integrity,
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| 2:8 |
Guarding the paths of justice, And He preserves the way of His godly ones.
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| 2:9 |
Then you will discern righteousness and justice And equity [and] every good course.
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| 2:10 |
For wisdom will enter your heart, And knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;
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| 2:11 |
Discretion will guard you, Understanding will watch over you,
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| 2:12 |
To deliver you from the way of evil, From the man who speaks perverse things;
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| 2:13 |
From those who leave the paths of uprightness, To walk in the ways of darkness;
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| 2:14 |
Who delight in doing evil, And rejoice in the perversity of evil;
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| 2:15 |
Whose paths are crooked, And who are devious in their ways;
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| 2:16 |
To deliver you from the strange woman, From the adulteress who flatters with her words;
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| 2:17 |
That leaves the companion of her youth, And forgets the covenant of her God;
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| 2:18 |
For her house sinks down to death, And her tracks [lead] to the dead;
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| 2:19 |
None who go to her return again, Nor do they reach the paths of life.
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| 2:20 |
So you will walk in the way of good men, And keep to the paths of the righteous.
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| 2:21 |
For the upright will live in the land, And the blameless will remain in it;
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| 2:22 |
But the wicked will be cut off from the land, And the treacherous will be uprooted from it.
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