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Proverbs 2
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Chapter 2
Wisdom, a safeguard against bad company
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My son, you take my words to heart, if you set store by my commandments,
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tuning your ear to wisdom, and applying your heart to truth:
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yes, if your plea is for clear perception, if you cry out for discernment,
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if you look for it as if it were silver, and search for it as for buried treasure,
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you will then understand what the fear of Yahweh is, and discover the knowledge of God.
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For Yahweh himself is giver of wisdom, from his mouth issue knowledge and discernment.
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He keeps his help for honest men, he is the shield of those whose ways are honourable;
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he stands guard over the paths of justice, he keeps watch on the way of his devoted ones.
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Then you will understand what virtue is, justice, and fair dealing, all paths that lead to happiness.
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When wisdom comes into your heart and knowledge is a delight to you,
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then prudence will be there to watch over you, and discernment be your guardian
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to keep you from the way that is evil, from the man whose speech is deceitful,
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from those who leave the paths of honesty to walk the roads of darkness:
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men who find their joy in doing wrong, and their delight in deceitfulness,
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whose tracks are twisted, and the paths that they tread crooked.
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Keeping you also from the alien woman, from the stranger, with her wheedling words;
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she has left the partner of her younger days, she has forgotten the covenant of God;
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towards death her house is declining, down to the Shades her paths go.
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Of those who go to her not one returns, they never regain the paths of life.
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So you will pursue the way of good men, persisting in the paths of the virtuous.
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For the land will be for honest men to live in the innocent will have it for their home;
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while the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the faithless rooted out of it.
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