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Proverbs Chapter 2
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1 My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you,
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2 so as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;
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3 yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;
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4 if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures;
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5 then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and find the knowledge of God.
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6 For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
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7 He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
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8 that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his saints.
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9 Then you will understand righteousness and justice, equity and every good path.
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10 For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
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11 Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,
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12 to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things,
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13 who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness,
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14 who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil,
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15 who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths,
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16 to deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words,
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17 who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God;
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18 for her house leads down to death, her paths to the departed spirits.
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19 None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life.
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20 Therefore walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.
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21 For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it.
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22 But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.
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