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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Proverbs 2 Literal Standard Version</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/proverbs/2.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" 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href="/proverbs/2-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>To cause your ear to attend to wisdom, "" You incline your heart to understanding,<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For if you call for intelligence, "" [And] give forth your voice for intelligence,<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>If you seek her as silver, "" And search for her as hid treasures,<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Then you understand the fear of YHWH, "" And you find the knowledge of God.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>For YHWH gives wisdom, "" Knowledge and understanding from His mouth.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Even to lay up substance for the upright, "" A shield for those walking uprightly.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>To keep the paths of judgment, "" And He preserves the way of His saints.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Then you understand righteousness, "" And judgment, and uprightness—every good path.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>For wisdom comes into your heart, "" And knowledge is pleasant to your soul,<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Thoughtfulness watches over you, "" Understanding keeps you,<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>To deliver you from an evil way, "" From any speaking contrary things,<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Who are forsaking paths of uprightness, "" To walk in ways of darkness,<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Who are rejoicing to do evil, "" They delight in [the] contrariness of the wicked,<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Whose paths [are] crooked, "" Indeed, they are perverted in their ways.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>To deliver you from the strange woman, "" From the stranger who has made her sayings smooth,<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Who is forsaking the guide of her youth, "" And has forgotten the covenant of her God.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/2-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>For her house has inclined to death, "" And her paths to Rephaim.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/2-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>None going in to her return, "" Nor do they reach the paths of life.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/2-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>That you go in the way of the good, "" And keep the paths of the righteous.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/2-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>For the upright inhabit the earth, "" And the perfect are left in it,<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/2-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And the wicked are cut off from the earth, "" And treacherous dealers plucked out of it!<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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