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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 thou wilt receive my words, And lay up my commandments with thee; | 1 My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and wilt hide my commandments with thee, | 1 My son, if thou dost accept my sayings, And my commands dost lay up 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 So as to incline thine ear unto wisdom, And apply thy heart to understanding; | 2 That thy ear may hearken to wisdom: Incline thy heart to know prudence: | 2 To cause thine ear to attend to wisdom, Thou inclinest 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 Yea, if thou cry after discernment, And lift up thy voice for understanding; | 3 For if thou shalt call for wisdom, and incline thy heart to prudence: | 3 For, if for intelligence thou callest, For understanding givest forth thy voice, | 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 thou seek her as silver, And search for her as for hid treasures: | 4 If thou shalt seek her as money, and shalt dig for her as for a treasure: | 4 If thou dost seek her as silver, And as hid treasures searchest for her, | 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 shalt thou understand the fear of Jehovah, And find the knowledge of God. | 5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and shalt find the knowledge of God. | 5 Then understandest thou fear of Jehovah, And knowledge of God thou findest. | NASB | KJV | ASV | DRB | YLT |
| 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 For Jehovah giveth wisdom; Out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding: | 6 Because the Lord giveth wisdom: and out of his mouth cometh prudence and knowledge. | 6 For Jehovah giveth wisdom, From His mouth 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 layeth up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to them that walk in integrity; | 7 He will keep the salvation of the righteous, and protect them that walk in simplicity. | 7 Even to lay up for the upright substance, A shield for those walking uprightly. | 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 That he may guard the paths of justice, And preserve the way of his saints. | 8 Keeping the paths of justice, and guarding the ways of saints. | 8 To keep the paths of judgment, And the way of His saints He preserveth. | 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 shalt thou understand righteousness and justice, And equity, yea , every good path. | 9 Then shalt thou understand justice, and judgment, and equity, and every good path. | 9 Then understandest thou righteousness, And judgment, and uprightness -- 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 For wisdom shall enter into thy heart, And knowledge shall be pleasant unto thy soul; | 10 If wisdom shall enter into thy heart, and knowledge please thy soul: | 10 For wisdom cometh into thy heart, And knowledge to thy soul is pleasant, | NASB | KJV | ASV | DRB | YLT |
| 11 Discretion will guard you, Understanding will watch over you, | 11 Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee: | 11 Discretion shall watch over thee; Understanding shall keep thee: | 11 Counsel shall keep thee, and prudence shall preserve thee, | 11 Thoughtfulness doth watch over thee, Understanding doth keep 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 To deliver thee from the way of evil, From the men that speak perverse things; | 12 That thou mayst be delivered from the evil way, and from the man that speaketh perverse things: | 12 To deliver thee from an evil way, From any speaking 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 Who forsake the paths of uprightness, To walk in the ways of darkness; | 13 Who leave the right way, and walk by dark ways: | 13 Who are forsaking paths of uprightness, To walk in 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 Who rejoice to do evil, And delight in the perverseness of evil; | 14 Who are glad when they have done evil, and rejoice in most wicked things: | 14 Who are rejoicing to do evil, They delight in frowardness of the wicked, | 15 Whose paths are crooked, And who are devious in their ways; | 15 Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths: | 15 Who are crooked in their ways, And wayward in their paths: | 15 Whose ways are perverse, and their steps infamous. | 15 Whose paths are crooked, Yea, they are perverted in their ways. | NASB | KJV | ASV | DRB | YLT |
| 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 To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words; | 16 That thou mayst be delivered from the strange women, and from the stranger, who softeneth her words: | 16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, From the stranger who hath made smooth her sayings, | 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 That forsaketh the friend of her youth, And forgetteth the covenant of her God: | 17 And forsaketh the guide of her youth, | 17 Who is forsaking the guide of her youth, And the covenant of her God hath forgotten. | 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 For her house inclineth unto death, And her paths unto the dead; | 18 And hath forgotten the covenant of her God: for her house inclineth unto death, and her paths to hell. | 18 For her house hath inclined unto death, And unto Rephaim her paths. | 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 that go unto her return again, Neither do they attain unto the paths of life: | 19 None that go in unto her shall return again, neither shall they take hold of the paths of life, | 19 None going in unto her turn back, Nor do they reach 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 That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, And keep the paths of the righteous. | 20 That thou mayst walk in a good way: and mayst keep the paths of the just. | 20 That thou dost go in the way of the good, And the paths of the righteous dost keep. | NASB | KJV | ASV | DRB | YLT |
| 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 For the upright shall dwell in the land, And the perfect shall remain in it. | 21 For they that are upright shall dwell in the earth, and the simple shall continue in it. | 21 For the upright do inhabit the earth, And the perfect are left 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 the wicked shall be cut off from the land, And the treacherous shall be rooted out of it. | 22 But the wicked shall be destroyed from the earth: and they that do unjustly shall be taken away from it. | 22 And the wicked from the earth are cut off, And treacherous dealers plucked out of it! |
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