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The Pursuit of Wisdom Brings Security | ||||
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| 1 My son, if you will receive my words And treasure my commandments within you, | 1 My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee; | 1 My son, if you take my words [to heart] and treasure my commands within you, | 1 My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you; | 1 My son, if thou receivest my words, and layest up my commandments with thee, | 2 Make your ear attentive to wisdom, Incline your heart to understanding; | 2 So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; | 2 if you pay close attention to wisdom, and let your mind reach for understanding, | 2 So as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding; | 2 so that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom and thou apply thy heart to understanding; | 3 For if you cry for discernment, Lift your voice for understanding; | 3 Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding; | 3 if indeed you call out for insight, if you ask aloud for understanding, | 3 Yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding; | 3 yea, if thou criest after discernment and liftest up thy voice to understanding; | 4 If you seek her as silver And search for her as for hidden treasures; | 4 If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; | 4 if you search for wisdom as if it were money and hunt for it as if it were hidden treasure, | 4 If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures: | 4 if thou seekest her as silver and searchest for her as for hidden treasures: | 5 Then you will discern the fear of the LORD And discover the knowledge of God. | 5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God. | 5 then you will understand the fear of the LORD and you will find the knowledge of God. | 5 then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and find the knowledge of God. | 5 then shalt thou understand the fear of Jehovah, and find the knowledge of God. | NASB | KJV | GWT | WEB | DBY |
| 6 For the LORD gives wisdom; From His mouth come knowledge and understanding. | 6 For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding. | 6 The LORD gives wisdom. From his mouth come knowledge and understanding. | 6 For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding. | 6 For Jehovah giveth wisdom; out of his mouth come knowledge and understanding. | 7 He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk in integrity, | 7 He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly. | 7 He has reserved priceless wisdom for decent people. He is a shield for those who walk in integrity | 7 He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity; | 7 He layeth up sound wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to them that walk in integrity; | 8 Guarding the paths of justice, And He preserves the way of His godly ones. | 8 He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints. | 8 in order to guard those on paths of justice and to watch over the way of his godly ones. | 8 that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his saints. | 8 guarding the paths of just judgment and keeping the way of his godly ones. | 9 Then you will discern righteousness and justice And equity and every good course. | 9 Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path. | 9 Then you will understand what is right and just and fair- every good course [in life]. | 9 Then you will understand righteousness and justice, equity and every good path. | 9 Then shalt thou understand righteousness and judgment and equity: every good path. | 10 For wisdom will enter your heart And knowledge will be pleasant to your soul; | 10 When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; | 10 Wisdom will come into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul. | 10 For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul. | 10 When wisdom entereth into thy heart and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul, | NASB | KJV | GWT | WEB | DBY |
| 11 Discretion will guard you, Understanding will watch over you, | 11 Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee: | 11 Foresight will protect you. Understanding will guard you. | 11 Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you, | 11 discretion shall keep thee, understanding shall preserve thee: | 12 To deliver you from the way of evil, From the man who speaks perverse things; | 12 To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things; | 12 [Wisdom will] save you from the way of evil, from the person who speaks devious things, | 12 to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things; | 12 To deliver thee from the way of evil, from the man that speaketh froward things; | 13 From those who leave the paths of uprightness To walk in the ways of darkness; | 13 Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness; | 13 from those who abandon the paths of righteousness to walk the ways of darkness, | 13 who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness; | 13 from those who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness; | 14 Who delight in doing evil And rejoice in the perversity of evil; | 14 Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked; | 14 from those who enjoy doing evil, from those who find joy in the deviousness of evil. | 14 who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil; | 14 who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of evil; | 15 Whose paths are crooked, And who are devious in their ways; | 15 Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths: | 15 Their paths are crooked. Their ways are devious. | 15 who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths: | 15 whose paths are crooked, and who are perverted in their course: | NASB | KJV | GWT | WEB | DBY |
| 16 To deliver you from the strange woman, From the adulteress who flatters with her words; | 16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words; | 16 [Wisdom will] also save you from an adulterous woman, from a loose woman with her smooth talk, | 16 To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words; | 16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, from the stranger who flattereth with her words; | 17 That leaves the companion of her youth And forgets the covenant of her God; | 17 Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God. | 17 who leaves [her husband,]the closest friend of her youth,[and forgets her marriage vows to her God.] | 17 who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God: | 17 who forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God; | 18 For her house sinks down to death And her tracks lead to the dead; | 18 For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead. | 18 Her house sinks down to death. Her ways lead to the souls of the dead. | 18 for her house leads down to death, her paths to the dead. | 18 for her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead; | 19 None who go to her return again, Nor do they reach the paths of life. | 19 None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life. | 19 None who have sex with her come back. Nor do they ever reach the paths of life. | 19 None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life: | 19 none that go unto her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life: | 20 So you will walk in the way of good men And keep to the paths of the righteous. | 20 That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous. | 20 So walk in the way of good people and stay on the paths of righteous people. | 20 that you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous. | 20 that thou mayest walk in the way of the good, And keep the paths of the righteous. | NASB | KJV | GWT | WEB | DBY |
| 21 For the upright will live in the land And the blameless will remain in it; | 21 For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it. | 21 Decent people will live in the land. People of integrity will remain in it. | 21 For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it. | 21 For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it; | 22 But the wicked will be cut off from the land And the treacherous will be uprooted from it. | 22 But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it. | 22 But wicked people will be cut off from the land and treacherous people will be torn from it. | 22 But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it. | 22 but the wicked shall be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful shall be plucked up out of it. |
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