The Benefits of Wisdom 1 DRA My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and wilt hide my commandments with thee, BSB BSB: My son, if you accept my words and hide my commandments within you,
2 DRA That thy ear may hearken to wisdom: Incline thy heart to know prudence: BSB BSB: if you incline your ear to wisdom and direct your heart to understanding,
3 DRA For if thou shalt call for wisdom, and incline thy heart to prudence: BSB BSB: if you truly call out to insight and lift your voice to understanding,
4 DRA If thou shalt seek her as money, and shalt dig for her as for a treasure: BSB BSB: if you seek it like silver and search it out like hidden treasure,
5 DRA Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and shalt find the knowledge of God. BSB BSB: then you will discern the fear of the LORD and discover the knowledge of God.
6 DRA Because the Lord giveth wisdom: and out of his mouth cometh prudence and knowledge. BSB BSB: For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.
7 DRA He will keep the salvation of the righteous, and protect them that walk in simplicity. BSB BSB: He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk with integrity,
8 DRA Keeping the paths of justice, and guarding the ways of saints. BSB BSB: to guard the paths of justice and protect the way of His saints.
9 DRA Then shalt thou understand justice, and judgment, and equity, and every good path. BSB BSB: Then you will discern righteousness and justice and equity—every good path.
10 DRA If wisdom shall enter into thy heart, and knowledge please thy soul: BSB BSB: For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will delight your soul.
11 DRA Counsel shall keep thee, and prudence shall preserve thee, BSB BSB: Discretion will watch over you, and understanding will guard you,
12 DRA That thou mayst be delivered from the evil way, and from the man that speaketh perverse things: BSB BSB: to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perversity,
13 DRA Who leave the right way, and walk by dark ways: BSB BSB: from those who leave the straight paths to walk in the ways of darkness,
14 DRA Who are glad when they have done evil, and rejoice in most wicked things: BSB BSB: from those who enjoy doing evil and rejoice in the twistedness of evil,
15 DRA Whose ways are perverse, and their steps infamous. BSB BSB: whose paths are crooked and whose ways are devious.
16 DRA That thou mayst be delivered from the strange women, and from the stranger, who softeneth her words: BSB BSB: It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words
17 DRA And forsaketh the guide of her youth, BSB BSB: who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.
18 DRA And hath forgotten the covenant of her God: for her house inclineth unto death, and her paths to hell. BSB BSB: For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits.
19 DRA None that go in unto her shall return again, neither shall they take hold of the paths of life, BSB BSB: None who go to her return or negotiate the paths of life.
20 DRA That thou mayst walk in a good way: and mayst keep the paths of the just. BSB BSB: So you will follow in the ways of the good, and keep to the paths of the righteous.
21 DRA For they that are upright shall dwell in the earth, and the simple shall continue in it. BSB BSB: For the upright will inhabit the land, and the blameless will remain in it;
22 DRA But the wicked shall be destroyed from the earth: and they that do unjustly shall be taken away from it. BSB BSB: but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be uprooted.
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