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Proverbs 2 – Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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Yahweh Gives Wisdom

1 My son, if you will receive my words

And treasure my commandments within you,

2 To make your ear pay attention to wisdom,

Incline your heart to discernment;

3 For if you call out for understanding,

Give your voice for discernment;

4 If you seek her as silver

And search for her as for hidden treasures;

5 Then you will understand the fear of Yahweh

And find the knowledge of God.

6 For Yahweh gives wisdom;

From His mouth come knowledge and discernment.

7 He stores up sound wisdom for the upright,

A shield to those who walk in integrity,

8 To guard the paths of justice,

And He keeps the way of His holy ones.

9 Then you will understand righteousness and justice

And equity—every good track.

10 For wisdom will enter your heart

And knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;

11 Discretion will keep you,

Discernment will guard you,

12 To deliver you from the way of evil,

From the man who speaks perverse things;

13 From those who forsake the paths of uprightness

To walk in the ways of darkness;

14 Who are glad to do evil

And they rejoice in the perversity of evil;

15 Whose paths are crooked,

And who are devious in their tracks;

16 To deliver you from the [fn]strange woman,

From the [fn]foreign woman who flatters with her words;

17 Who forsakes the close companion of her youth

And forgets the covenant of her God;

18 For her house [fn]sinks down to death

And her tracks descend to the [fn]dead;

19 All who go to her will not return,

And they will not reach the paths of life.

20 So that you will walk in the way of good men

And keep to the paths of the righteous.

21 For the upright will dwell in the land

And the blameless will remain in it;

22 But the wicked will be cut off from the land

And the treacherous will be torn away from it.

See the LSB Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
LSB Footnotes
A forbidden woman, outside of the marriage covenant; an adulteress; parallel with foreign woman; so in Prov
An unfamiliar woman, alien to the marriage covenant; parallel with strange woman
Lit bows down
Lit departed spirits
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