Proverbs 2
2
The Benefits of Wisdom
1My son, if you accept my words
and hide my commandments within you,
2if you incline your ear to wisdom
and direct your heart to understanding,
3if you truly call out to insight
and lift your voice to understanding,
4if you seek it like silver
and search it out like hidden treasure,
5then you will discern the fear of the Lord
and discover the knowledge of God.
6For the Lord gives wisdom;
from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.
7He stores up sound wisdom for the upright;
He is a shield to those who walk with integrity,
8to guard the paths of justice
and protect the way of His saints.
9Then you will discern righteousness
and justice and equity—every good path.
10For wisdom will enter your heart,
and knowledge will delight your soul.
11Discretion will watch over you,
and understanding will guard you,
12to deliver you from the way of evil,
from the man who speaks perversity,
13from those who leave the straight paths
to walk in the ways of darkness,
14from those who enjoy doing evil
and rejoice in the twistedness of evil,
15whose paths are crooked
and whose ways are devious.
16It will rescue you from the forbidden woman,#2:16 Or wayward wife
from the stranger #2:16 Or adulteress with seductive words
17who abandons the partner of her youth
and forgets the covenant of her God.
18For her house sinks down to death,
and her tracks to the departed spirits.#2:18 Hebrew to the Rephaim
19None who go to her return
or negotiate the paths of life.
20So you will follow in the ways of the good,
and keep to the paths of the righteous.
21For the upright will inhabit the land,
and the blameless will remain in it;
22but the wicked will be cut off from the land,
and the unfaithful will be uprooted.
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