45 lines
1.8 KiB
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45 lines
1.8 KiB
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# Chapter 2
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1 My son, if you receive my words
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and treasure up my commandments with you,
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2 making your ear attentive to wisdom
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and inclining your heart to understanding;
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3 yes, if you call out for insight
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and raise your voice for understanding,
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4 if you seek it like silver
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and search for it as for hidden treasures,
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5 then you will understand the fear of the Lord
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and find the knowledge of God.
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6 For the Lord gives wisdom;
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from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;
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7 he stores up sound wisdom for the upright;
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he is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
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8 guarding the paths of justice
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and watching over the way of his saints.
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9 Then you will understand righteousness and justice
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and equity, every good path;
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10 for wisdom will come into your heart,
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and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;
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11 discretion will watch over you,
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understanding will guard you,
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12 delivering you from the way of evil,
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from men of perverted speech,
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13 who forsake the paths of uprightness
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to walk in the ways of darkness,
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14 who rejoice in doing evil
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and delight in the perverseness of evil,
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15 men whose paths are crooked,
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and who are devious in their ways.
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16 So you will be delivered from the forbidden woman,
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from the adulteress with her smooth words,
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17 who forsakes the companion of her youth
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and forgets the covenant of her God;
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18 for her house sinks down to death,
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and her paths to the departed;
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19 none who go to her come back,
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nor do they regain the paths of life.
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20 So you will walk in the way of the good
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and keep to the paths of the righteous.
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21 For the upright will inhabit the land,
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and those with integrity will remain in it,
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22 but the wicked will be cut off from the land,
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and the treacherous will be rooted out of it. |