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King James Bible
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Youngs Literal Translation
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| 2:1 |
My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee; |
My son, if thou dost accept my sayings, And my commands dost lay up with thee, |
| 2:2 |
So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; |
To cause thine ear to attend to wisdom, Thou inclinest thy heart to understanding, |
| 2:3 |
Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding; |
For, if for intelligence thou callest, For understanding givest forth thy voice, |
| 2:4 |
If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; |
If thou dost seek her as silver, And as hid treasures searchest for her, |
| 2:5 |
Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God. |
Then understandest thou fear of Jehovah, And knowledge of God thou findest. |
| 2:6 |
For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding. |
For Jehovah giveth wisdom, From His mouth knowledge and understanding. |
| 2:7 |
He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly. |
Even to lay up for the upright substance, A shield for those walking uprightly. |
| 2:8 |
He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints. |
To keep the paths of judgment, And the way of His saints He preserveth. |
| 2:9 |
Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path. |
Then understandest thou righteousness, And judgment, and uprightness -- every good path. |
| 2:10 |
When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; |
For wisdom cometh into thy heart, And knowledge to thy soul is pleasant, |
| 2:11 |
Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee: |
Thoughtfulness doth watch over thee, Understanding doth keep thee, |
| 2:12 |
To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things; |
To deliver thee from an evil way, From any speaking froward things, |
| 2:13 |
Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness; |
Who are forsaking paths of uprightness, To walk in ways of darkness, |
| 2:14 |
Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked; |
Who are rejoicing to do evil, They delight in frowardness of the wicked, |
| 2:15 |
Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths: |
Whose paths `are' crooked, Yea, they are perverted in their ways. |
| 2:16 |
To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words; |
To deliver thee from the strange woman, From the stranger who hath made smooth her sayings, |
| 2:17 |
Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God. |
Who is forsaking the guide of her youth, And the covenant of her God hath forgotten. |
| 2:18 |
For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead. |
For her house hath inclined unto death, And unto Rephaim her paths. |
| 2:19 |
None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life. |
None going in unto her turn back, Nor do they reach the paths of life. |
| 2:20 |
That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous. |
That thou dost go in the way of the good, And the paths of the righteous dost keep. |
| 2:21 |
For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it. |
For the upright do inhabit the earth, And the perfect are left in it, |
| 2:22 |
But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it. |
And the wicked from the earth are cut off, And treacherous dealers plucked out of it! |
