| 章 |
| 2:1 |
My child, if you accept my words and treasure up my commandments within you,
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| 2:2 |
making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding;
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| 2:3 |
if you indeed cry out for insight, and raise your voice for understanding;
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| 2:4 |
if you seek it like silver, and search for it as for hidden treasures--
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| 2:5 |
then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find 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 blamelessly,
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| 2:8 |
guarding the paths of justice and preserving the way of his faithful ones.
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| 2:9 |
Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path;
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| 2:10 |
for wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;
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| 2:11 |
prudence will watch over you; and understanding will guard you.
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| 2:12 |
It will save you from the way of evil, from those who speak perversely,
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| 2:13 |
who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,
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| 2:14 |
who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perverseness of evil;
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| 2:15 |
those whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways.
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| 2:16 |
You will be saved from the loose woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words,
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| 2:17 |
who forsakes the partner of her youth and forgets her sacred covenant;
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| 2:18 |
for her way leads down to death, and her paths to the shades;
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| 2:19 |
those who go to her never come back, nor do they regain the paths of life.
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| 2:20 |
Therefore walk in the way of the good, and keep to the paths of the just.
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| 2:21 |
For the upright will abide in the land, and the innocent 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 rooted out of it.
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