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The American Standard Version of 1901

Proverbs 2

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My son, if thou wilt receive my words, And lay up my commandments with thee;

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So as to incline thine ear unto wisdom, And apply thy heart to understanding;

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Yea, if thou cry after discernment, And lift up thy voice for understanding;

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If thou seek her as silver, And search for her as for hid treasures:

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Then shalt thou understand the fear of Jehovah, And find the knowledge of God.

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For Jehovah giveth wisdom; Out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding:

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He layeth up sound wisdom for the upright; 1 He is a shield to them that walk in integrity; 1) Or, And a shield for etc

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1 That he may guard the paths of justice, 2 And preserve the way of his saints. 1) Or That they may keep 2) Or Yea, he preserveth

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Then shalt thou understand righteousness and justice, And equity, yea , every good path.

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For wisdom shall enter into thy heart, And knowledge shall be pleasant unto thy soul;

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Discretion shall watch over thee; Understanding shall keep thee:

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To deliver thee from the way of 1 evil, From the men that speak perverse things; 1) Or the evil man

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Who forsake the paths of uprightness, To walk in the ways of darkness;

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Who rejoice to do evil, And delight in the perverseness of 1 evil; 1) Or the evil man

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Who are crooked in their ways, And wayward in their paths:

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To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that 1 flattereth with her words; 1) Heb maketh smooth her words

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That forsaketh the 1 friend of her youth, And forgetteth the covenant of her God: 1) Or guide

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For 1 her house inclineth unto death, And her paths unto 2 the dead; 1) Or she sinketh down unto death, which is her house 2) Or the shades ; Heb Rephaim

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None that go unto her return again, Neither do they attain unto the paths of life:

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That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, And keep the paths of the righteous.

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For the upright shall dwell in the 1 land, And the perfect shall remain in it. 1) Or earth

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But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, 1 And the treacherous shall be rooted out of it. 1) Or earth



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