Sprüche 2

1. ¹My son, if you will take my words to your heart, storing up my laws in your mind;
2. ²So that your ear gives attention to wisdom, and your heart is turned to knowledge;
3. ³Truly, if you are crying out for good sense, and your request is for knowledge;
4. ⁴If you are looking for her as for silver, and searching for her as for stored-up wealth;
5. ⁵Then the fear of the Lord will be clear to you, and knowledge of God will be yours.
6. ⁶For the Lord gives wisdom; out of his mouth come knowledge and reason:
7. ⁷He has salvation stored up for the upright, he is a breastplate to those in whom there is no evil;
8. ⁸He keeps watch on the ways which are right, and takes care of those who have the fear of him.
9. ⁹Then you will have knowledge of righteousness and right acting, and upright behaviour, even of every good way.
10. ¹⁰For wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasing to your soul;
11. ¹¹Wise purposes will be watching over you, and knowledge will keep you;
12. ¹²Giving you salvation from the evil man, from those whose words are false;
13. ¹³Who give up the way of righteousness, to go by dark roads;
14. ¹⁴Who take pleasure in wrongdoing, and have joy in the evil designs of the sinner;
15. ¹⁵Whose ways are not straight, and whose footsteps are turned to evil:
16. ¹⁶To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue;
17. ¹⁷Who is false to the husband of her early years, and does not keep the agreement of her God in mind:
18. ¹⁸For her house is on the way down to death; her footsteps go down to the shades:
19. ¹⁹Those who go to her do not come back again; their feet do not keep in the ways of life:
20. ²⁰So that you may go in the way of good men, and keep in the footsteps of the upright.
21. ²¹For the upright will be living in the land, and the good will have it for their heritage.
22. ²²But sinners will be cut off from the land, and those whose acts are false will be uprooted.

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