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<p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For if you call out for understanding, <p class="indent2">Give your voice for discernment; <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>If you seek her as silver <p class="indent2">And search for her as for hidden treasures; <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Then you will understand the fear of Yahweh <p class="indent2">And find the knowledge of God. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>For Yahweh gives wisdom; <p class="indent2">From His mouth <i>come</i> knowledge and discernment. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>He stores up sound wisdom for the upright, <p class="indent2">A shield to those who walk in integrity, <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>To guard the paths of justice, <p class="indent2">And He keeps the way of His holy ones. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Then you will understand righteousness and justice <p class="indent2">And equity—every good track. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>For wisdom will enter your heart <p class="indent2">And knowledge will be pleasant to your soul; <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Discretion will keep you, <p class="indent2">Discernment will guard you, <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>To deliver you from the way of evil, <p class="indent2">From the man who speaks perverse things; <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>From those who forsake the paths of uprightness <p class="indent2">To walk in the ways of darkness; <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Who are glad to do evil <p class="indent2">And they rejoice in the perversity of evil; <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Whose paths are crooked, <p class="indent2">And who are devious in their tracks; <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>To deliver you from the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>strange woman, <p class="indent2">From the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>foreign woman who flatters with her words; <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Who forsakes the close companion of her youth <p class="indent2">And forgets the covenant of her God; <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/2-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>For her house <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>sinks down to death <p class="indent2">And her tracks <i>descend</i> to the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>dead; <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/2-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>All who go to her will not return, <p class="indent2">And they will not reach the paths of life. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/2-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>So that you will walk in the way of good men <p class="indent2">And keep to the paths of the righteous. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/2-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>For the upright will dwell in the land <p class="indent2">And the blameless will remain in it; <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/2-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>But the wicked will be cut off from the land <p class="indent2">And the treacherous will be torn away from it.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="fnverse">16</span> A forbidden woman, outside of the marriage covenant; an adulteress; parallel with <i>foreign woman</i>; so in Prov<br><span class="fnverse">16</span> An unfamiliar woman, alien to the marriage covenant; parallel with <i>strange woman</i><br><span class="fnverse">18</span> Lit <i>bows down</i><br><span class="fnverse">18</span> Lit <i>departed spirits</i><br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved. 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