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LEB PRO Chapter 2

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The Benefits of Wisdom

and hide my commands with you,
2 in order to incline your ear toward wisdom, then you shall apply your heart to understanding.
3 [fn] if you lift[fn] your voice for insight,
4 and search her out[fn]
5  and the knowledge of God you will find.
6  from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.

7 [fn] sound judgment, a shield for those who walk uprightly,
- 8 in order to guard paths of justice and keep[fn] the way of his faithful ones.
- 9  and uprightness—every good course—
- 10  and knowledge will be pleasing to your soul.[fn]
- 11  understanding will protect you,
- 12 in order to deliver you from the way of evil,[fn] from a man who speaks devious things—
- 13  to walk in ways of darkness,
- 14  for they delight in the deviousness of evil,
- 15 [fn] and devious in their paths;
- 16 in order to deliver you from a strange woman, from a foreign woman who flatters[fn] with her sayings,
- 17  and has forgotten the covenant of her God,
- 18  and to the dead[fn] are her paths.
- 19 Of all who go to her, none shall return, nor do they reach paths of life.
- 20  and the paths of those who are righteous you shall keep.
- 21 in the land,[fn] and those who are blameless[fn] will remain in it.
- 22 and those who are treacherous will be uprooted from it.

2:? Or “call to understanding”

2:? Or “carry, give”

2:? Literally “like the treasures”

2:? Or “hides, keeps”

2:? Or “preserve, guard, watch”

2:? Or “inner self”

2:? Or “evildoer”

2:? Literally “that in their ways are crooked”

2:? Or “makes smooth”

2:? Or “Rephaim”

2:? Or “earth”

2:? Or “innocent”

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