KJ3 Literal Translation
Proverbs 2
Wisdom promises godliness to her children, and safety from evil company.
1My son, if you will receive My words, and treasure up My commandments with you,
2so that your ear attends to wisdom, you shall stretch out your heart to understanding.
3For if you cry for discernment, giving forth your voice for understanding;
4if you seek her as silver, and search for her as hidden treasures,
5then you shall understand the fear of Jehovah and find knowledge of God.
6For Jehovah gives wisdom; out of His mouth are knowledge and understanding.
7He lays up sound wisdom for the upright ones; He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
8to guard the paths of judgment, and He guards the way of His godly ones.
9Then you shall understand righteousness and judgment and uprightness; yea, every good path.
10When wisdom enters into your heart, and knowledge is pleasant to your soul,
11discretion shall keep you, understanding shall watch over you;
12to deliver you from the evil way, from the man speaking perversity;
13those who leave the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,
14rejoicing to do evil; they delight in the perversity of the evil one,
15whose paths are crooked and being devious in their tracks,
16these will deliver you from the strange woman, from the foreign woman flattering by her words,
17who forsakes the guide of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God.
18For her house leads down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits.
19All going in to her do not return, and not do they reach the paths of life.
20Then you may walk in the ways of the good and keep the ways of the righteous ones.
21For the upright ones shall live in the land, and the blameless shall remain in it;
22but the wicked ones shall be cut off from the earth, and ones acting deceitfully shall be rooted out of it.
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