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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 Lamsa Bible</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%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/proverbs/2-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">Lamsa</a> > Proverbs 2</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../proverbs/1.htm" title="Proverbs 1">◄</a> Proverbs 2 <a href="../proverbs/3.htm" title="Proverbs 3">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Lamsa Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/2-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/2-1.htm#aramaic"><b>1</b></a></span>MY son, if you will receive my words and hide my commandments in your heart,<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/2-2.htm#aramaic"><b>2</b></a></span>And incline your ear to wisdom and apply your heart to understanding,<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/2-3.htm#aramaic"><b>3</b></a></span>Yea, if you cry after knowledge and lift up your voice to understanding,<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/2-4.htm#aramaic"><b>4</b></a></span>If you seek it as silver, and search for it as for hidden treasure;<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/2-5.htm#aramaic"><b>5</b></a></span>Then you will understand how to worship the LORD and find the knowledge of God.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/2-6.htm#aramaic"><b>6</b></a></span>For it is the LORD who gives wisdom; out of his mouth come knowledge and understanding.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/2-7.htm#aramaic"><b>7</b></a></span>He stores up hope for the upright; he helps those who walk without blemish.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/2-8.htm#aramaic"><b>8</b></a></span>He keeps the paths of justice, and preserves the ways of his saints.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/2-9.htm#aramaic"><b>9</b></a></span>Then you will understand righteousness and justice and the uprightness of all good ways.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/2-10.htm#aramaic"><b>10</b></a></span>When wisdom enters into your heart and knowledge is pleasant to your soul.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/2-11.htm#aramaic"><b>11</b></a></span>Intelligence shall preserve you, and the understanding of the pious men shall deliver you;<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/2-12.htm#aramaic"><b>12</b></a></span>That you might be delivered from evil ways, from men who speak perverse things,<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/2-13.htm#aramaic"><b>13</b></a></span>Who forsake the path of uprightness to walk in the way of darkness;<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/2-14.htm#aramaic"><b>14</b></a></span>Who rejoice to do evil and delight in the perverseness of evil things;<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/2-15.htm#aramaic"><b>15</b></a></span>Men whose ways are crooked and whose paths are perverse.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/2-16.htm#aramaic"><b>16</b></a></span>Wisdom shall deliver you from a strange woman who flatters with her words,<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/2-17.htm#aramaic"><b>17</b></a></span>Who has forsaken the mother of her youth and forgotten the covenant of her God.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/2-18.htm#aramaic"><b>18</b></a></span>For she has forgotten the threshold of her house and the way of her paths.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/2-19.htm#aramaic"><b>19</b></a></span>None who go to her return again, neither do they remember the path of life.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/2-20.htm#aramaic"><b>20</b></a></span>Therefore you must walk in the way of good men and keep the path of the righteous.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/2-21.htm#aramaic"><b>21</b></a></span>For the upright shall dwell in the land, and those who are unblemished shall remain in it.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/2-22.htm#aramaic"><b>22</b></a></span>But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth and the ungodly shall be rooted out of it.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Holy Bible From The Ancient Eastern Texts: Aramaic Of The Peshitta by George M. 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