| 章 |
| 2:1 |
My son, if thou dost accept my sayings, And my commands dost lay up with thee,
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| 2:2 |
To cause thine ear to attend to wisdom, Thou inclinest thy heart to understanding,
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| 2:3 |
For, if for intelligence thou callest, For understanding givest forth thy voice,
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| 2:4 |
If thou dost seek her as silver, And as hid treasures searchest for her,
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| 2:5 |
Then understandest thou fear of Jehovah, And knowledge of God thou findest.
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| 2:6 |
For Jehovah giveth wisdom, From His mouth knowledge and understanding.
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| 2:7 |
Even to lay up for the upright substance, A shield for those walking uprightly.
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| 2:8 |
To keep the paths of judgment, And the way of His saints He preserveth.
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| 2:9 |
Then understandest thou righteousness, And judgment, and uprightness -- every good path.
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| 2:10 |
For wisdom cometh into thy heart, And knowledge to thy soul is pleasant,
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| 2:11 |
Thoughtfulness doth watch over thee, Understanding doth keep thee,
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| 2:12 |
To deliver thee from an evil way, From any speaking froward things,
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| 2:13 |
Who are forsaking paths of uprightness, To walk in ways of darkness,
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| 2:14 |
Who are rejoicing to do evil, They delight in frowardness of the wicked,
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| 2:15 |
Whose paths [are] crooked, Yea, they are perverted in their ways.
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| 2:16 |
To deliver thee from the strange woman, From the stranger who hath made smooth her sayings,
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| 2:17 |
Who is forsaking the guide of her youth, And the covenant of her God hath forgotten.
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| 2:18 |
For her house hath inclined unto death, And unto Rephaim her paths.
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| 2:19 |
None going in unto her turn back, Nor do they reach the paths of life.
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| 2:20 |
That thou dost go in the way of the good, And the paths of the righteous dost keep.
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| 2:21 |
For the upright do inhabit the earth, And the perfect are left in it,
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| 2:22 |
And the wicked from the earth are cut off, And treacherous dealers plucked out of it!
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