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- Chapter 2 -

Reward for the seeker of wisdom

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My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you,
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so as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;
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yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;
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if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures;
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then you will understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.(a)
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For the LORD gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
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He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
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that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his saints.
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Then you will understand righteousness and justice, equity and every good path.
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For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
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Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,
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to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things,
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who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness,
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who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil,
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who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths,
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to deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words,
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who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God;
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for her house leads down to death, her paths to the departed spirits.
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None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life.

Walking in the way of wisdom

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Therefore walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.
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For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it.
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But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.

Footnotes

(a)2:5 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).

Reward for the seeker of wisdom

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My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;
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So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;
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Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;(a)
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If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;
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Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord , and find the knowledge of God.
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For the Lord giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.
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He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
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He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.
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Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.
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When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;
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Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:
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To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;
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Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
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Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;
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Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:
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To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
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Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
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For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
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None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.

Walking in the way of wisdom

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That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.
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For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.
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But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.(b)

Footnotes

(a)2:3 liftest…: Heb. givest thy voice
(b)2:22 rooted: or, plucked up
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