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Proverbs 2

CHAPTER 2 Seeking Wisdom

1 O son, if receiving the saying of my commandment, you shall hide it unto yourself; 2 [²shall obey ³wisdom ¹your ear], and you shall set aside your heart unto understanding; and you shall set it for admonition to your son. 3 For if [²wisdom ¹you should call upon], and [³for understanding ¹should give ²your voice]; 4 and [³perception ¹you should seek ²great] with your voice; and if you should seek her as silver, and [²as for ³treasures ¹should search her out]; 5 then you shall perceive the fear of the lord, and [²full knowledge ³of God ¹you will find]. 6 For the lord gives wisdom; and from his presence knowledge and understanding. 7 And he treasures up [²to the ones ³keeping straight ¹deliverance]; and he will shield their goings; 8 to guard the way of right actions; and the way of the ones venerating him he will protect.

Benefits of Wisdom

9 Then you shall perceive righteousness and judgment, and you shall set up all courses of action for good things. 10 For if [²shall come ¹wisdom] into your consideration, and perception [⁴for your ⁵soul ³good ²to be ¹shall seem]; 11 [²counsel ¹good] shall guard you, [³reflection ¹and ²sacred] will keep you, 12 that it should rescue you from [²way ¹the evil], and from the man speaking nothing trustworthy.

Abandoning Wisdom

13 O the ones abandoning [²ways ¹the straight] to go in the ways of darkness. 14 O the ones being glad over evils, and rejoicing over [²perverseness ¹evil]; 15 which paths are crooked, and [³curved ²tracks ¹their]; 16 [³to be far ²you ¹to cause] from [²way ¹the straight], and alien of a righteous design. O son, you should not let [³overtake you ¹bad ²counsel], 17 which left the instruction of youth, and [³covenant ²the divine ¹forgot]. 18 For she put [²near ³death ¹her house], and [²lead by ³Hades ⁴with ⁵the ⁶earthborn ¹her courses of action]. 19 All the ones coming near with her shall not return; nor shall they overtake [²paths ¹straight]; for they are not overtaken by years of life. 20 For if they went by [²paths ¹good], they would have found even the paths of righteousness smooth. [³will be gracious ¹The inhabitants ²of the earth], and the guileless will be left behind in her. 21 For the upright shall encamp in the land, and the sacred ones will be left behind in it. 22 And the ways of the impious [²from ³the earth ¹shall be destroyed], and the lawbreakers shall be banished from it.