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| Proverbs 2:1 | My son, if thou wilt receive my words, And lay up my commandments with thee; | My son, if you will take my words to your heart, storing up my laws in your mind; | My son, if thou receivest my words, and layest up my commandments with thee, | My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and wilt hide my commandments with thee, |
| Proverbs 2:2 | So as to incline thine ear unto wisdom, And apply thy heart to understanding; | So that your ear gives attention to wisdom, and your heart is turned to knowledge; | so that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom [and] thou apply thy heart to understanding; | That thy ear may hearken to wisdom: Incline thy heart to know prudence: |
| Proverbs 2:3 | Yea, if thou cry after discernment, And lift up thy voice for understanding; | Truly, if you are crying out for good sense, and your request is for knowledge; | yea, if thou criest after discernment [and] liftest up thy voice to understanding; | For if thou shalt call for wisdom, and incline thy heart to prudence: |
| Proverbs 2:4 | If thou seek her as silver, And search for her as for hid treasures: | If you are looking for her as for silver, and searching for her as for stored-up wealth; | if thou seekest her as silver and searchest for her as for hidden treasures: | If thou shalt seek her as money, and shalt dig for her as for a treasure: |
| Proverbs 2:5 | Then shalt thou understand the fear of Jehovah, And find the knowledge of God. | Then the fear of the Lord will be clear to you, and knowledge of God will be yours. | then shalt thou understand the fear of Jehovah, and find the knowledge of God. | Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and shalt find the knowledge of God. |
| Proverbs 2:6 | For Jehovah giveth wisdom; Out of his mouth [cometh] knowledge and understanding: | For the Lord gives wisdom; out of his mouth come knowledge and reason: | For Jehovah giveth wisdom; out of his mouth [come] knowledge and understanding. | Because the Lord giveth wisdom: and out of his mouth cometh prudence and knowledge. |
| Proverbs 2:7 | He layeth up sound wisdom for the upright; [He is] a shield to them that walk in integrity; | He has salvation stored up for the upright, he is a breastplate to those in whom there is no evil; | He layeth up sound wisdom for the upright; [he] is a shield to them that walk in integrity; | He will keep the salvation of the righteous, and protect them that walk in simplicity. |
| Proverbs 2:8 | That he may guard the paths of justice, And preserve the way of his saints. | He keeps watch on the ways which are right, and takes care of those who have the fear of him. | guarding the paths of just judgment and keeping the way of his godly ones. | Keeping the paths of justice, and guarding the ways of saints. |
| Proverbs 2:9 | Then shalt thou understand righteousness and justice, And equity, [yea], every good path. | Then you will have knowledge of righteousness and right acting, and upright behaviour, even of every good way. | Then shalt thou understand righteousness and judgment and equity: every good path. | Then shalt thou understand justice, and judgment, and equity, and every good path. |
| Proverbs 2:10 | For wisdom shall enter into thy heart, And knowledge shall be pleasant unto thy soul; | For wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasing to your soul; | When wisdom entereth into thy heart and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul, | If wisdom shall enter into thy heart, and knowledge please thy soul: |
| Proverbs 2:11 | Discretion shall watch over thee; Understanding shall keep thee: | Wise purposes will be watching over you, and knowledge will keep you; | discretion shall keep thee, understanding shall preserve thee: | Counsel shall keep thee, and prudence shall preserve thee, |
| Proverbs 2:12 | To deliver thee from the way of evil, From the men that speak perverse things; | Giving you salvation from the evil man, from those whose words are false; | To deliver thee from the way of evil, from the man that speaketh froward things; | That thou mayst be delivered from the evil way, and from the man that speaketh perverse things: |
| Proverbs 2:13 | Who forsake the paths of uprightness, To walk in the ways of darkness; | Who give up the way of righteousness, to go by dark roads; | [from those] who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness; | Who leave the right way, and walk by dark ways: |
| Proverbs 2:14 | Who rejoice to do evil, And delight in the perverseness of evil; | Who take pleasure in wrongdoing, and have joy in the evil designs of the sinner; | who rejoice to do evil, [and] delight in the frowardness of evil; | Who are glad when they have done evil, and rejoice in most wicked things: |
| Proverbs 2:15 | Who are crooked in their ways, And wayward in their paths: | Whose ways are not straight, and whose footsteps are turned to evil: | whose paths are crooked, and who are perverted in their course: | Whose ways are perverse, and their steps infamous. |
| Proverbs 2:16 | To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words; | To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue; | To deliver thee from the strange woman, from the stranger who flattereth with her words; | That thou mayst be delivered from the strange women, and from the stranger, who softeneth her words: |
| Proverbs 2:17 | That forsaketh the friend of her youth, And forgetteth the covenant of her God: | Who is false to the husband of her early years, and does not keep the agreement of her God in mind: | who forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God; | And forsaketh the guide of her youth, |
| Proverbs 2:18 | For her house inclineth unto death, And her paths unto the dead; | For her house is on the way down to death; her footsteps go down to the shades: | for her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead; | And hath forgotten the covenant of her God: for her house inclineth unto death, and her paths to hell. |
| Proverbs 2:19 | None that go unto her return again, Neither do they attain unto the paths of life: | Those who go to her do not come back again; their feet do not keep in the ways of life: | none that go unto her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life: | None that go in unto her shall return again, neither shall they take hold of the paths of life, |
| Proverbs 2:20 | That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, And keep the paths of the righteous. | So that you may go in the way of good men, and keep in the footsteps of the upright. | that thou mayest walk in the way of the good, and keep the paths of the righteous. | That thou mayst walk in a good way: and mayst keep the paths of the just. |
| Proverbs 2:21 | For the upright shall dwell in the land, And the perfect shall remain in it. | For the upright will be living in the land, and the good will have it for their heritage. | For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it; | For they that are upright shall dwell in the earth, and the simple shall continue in it. |
| Proverbs 2:22 | But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, And the treacherous shall be rooted out of it. | But sinners will be cut off from the land, and those whose acts are false will be uprooted. | but the wicked shall be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful shall be plucked up out of it. | But the wicked shall be destroyed from the earth: and they that do unjustly shall be taken away from it. |
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