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class="versenum">2</span>making your ear attentive to wisdom</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and inclining your heart to understanding;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>if you indeed cry out for insight,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and raise your voice for understanding;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>if you seek it like silver,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and search for it as for hidden treasures—</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>then you will understand the fear of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and find the knowledge of God.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>For the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> gives wisdom;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>he stores up sound wisdom for the upright;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">he is a shield to those who walk blamelessly,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>guarding the paths of justice</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and preserving the way of his faithful ones.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>Then you will understand righteousness and justice</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and equity, every good path;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>for wisdom will come into your heart,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>prudence will watch over you;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and understanding will guard you.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>It will save you from the way of evil,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">from those who speak perversely,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>who forsake the paths of uprightness</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">to walk in the ways of darkness,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>who rejoice in doing evil</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and delight in the perverseness of evil;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>those whose paths are crooked,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and who are devious in their ways.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>You will be saved from the loose<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-18520a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> woman,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">from the adulteress with her smooth words,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>who forsakes the partner of her youth</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and forgets her sacred covenant;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>for her way<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-18522b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> leads down to death,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and her paths to the shades;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>those who go to her never come back,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">nor do they regain the paths of life.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>Therefore walk in the way of the good,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and keep to the paths of the just.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>For the upright will abide in the land,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and the innocent will remain in it;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>but the wicked will be cut off from the land,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.</span></span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Proverbs 2:16">Proverbs 2:16</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>strange</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Proverbs 2:18">Proverbs 2:18</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Cn: Heb <i>house</i></span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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