Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
YLT
Young's Literal Translation
My son, if you
accept my words
and hide
my commandments
within
you
,
My son, if thou
dost
accept my sayings,
And my commands
dost
lay
up
with
thee
,
if
you
incline
your
ear to wisdom and
direct
your
heart to understanding,
To
cause
thine
ear to attend
to
wisdom ,
Thou
inclinest
thy
heart to understanding,
if you
truly
call
out
to
insight
and
lift
your
voice
to
understanding,
For,
if for
intelligence
thou
callest,
For
understanding givest
forth
thy
voice
,
if you
seek it
like
silver and search
it
out
like
hidden
treasure
,
If thou
dost
seek her
as
silver ,
And as
hid
treasures
searchest
for
her
,
then you
will
discern
the
fear of the
LORD
and discover
the
knowledge of God.
Then understandest
thou
fear of Jehovah,
And knowledge of God thou
findest
.
For the
LORD
gives
wisdom ;
from His mouth come
knowledge and understanding.
For Jehovah
giveth
wisdom ,
From His mouth knowledge and understanding.
He
stores
up sound
wisdom
for the upright ;
He
is
a shield to
those who
walk
with
integrity,
Even
to
lay
up for the upright substance,
A shield for
those walking
uprightly.
to guard
the paths of justice
and protect
the way of His saints.
To keep
the paths of judgment,
And the way of His saints He
preserveth
.
Then you
will
discern
righteousness and justice
and equity—
every good path.
Then understandest
thou
righteousness ,
And judgment,
and uprightness
--
every good path.
For wisdom will
enter
your
heart, and knowledge will
delight
your
soul .
For wisdom cometh
into
thy
heart, And knowledge to
thy
soul is
pleasant,
Discretion
will
watch over you
, and
understanding will
guard
you
,
Thoughtfulness
doth
watch over thee
, Understanding doth
keep
thee
,
to deliver you
from the
way
of
evil, from the
man
who
speaks
perversity
,
To deliver thee
from an
evil way
, From any
speaking
froward
things
,
from
those
who leave
the
straight
paths to walk in the
ways of darkness,
Who are
forsaking
paths of
uprightness,
To walk in ways of darkness,
from
those
who enjoy
doing
evil and
rejoice
in the
twistedness
of evil
,
Who are
rejoicing
to
do
evil ,
They
delight
in frowardness
of the
wicked
,
whose paths are crooked and
whose
ways
are devious
.
Whose paths `
are '
crooked ,
Yea,
they
are perverted
in
their
ways
.
It
will
rescue
you
from the forbidden
woman, from the stranger with
seductive
words
To
deliver
thee
from the strange
woman, From the stranger who
hath
made
smooth
her
sayings,
who abandons
the partner
of her youth and forgets
the covenant of her God.
Who is
forsaking
the guide
of her youth ,
And the covenant of her God hath
forgotten
.
For her house sinks
down
to
death, and her tracks
to
the
departed
spirits
.
For her house hath
inclined
unto
death, And unto
Rephaim
her paths
.
None who
go
to
her return
or
negotiate
the paths of life.
None going
in
unto
her turn
back,
Nor
do
they
reach
the paths of life.
So
you
will
follow
in the ways
of the good, and keep
to
the paths of the righteous.
That
thou
dost
go
in the way
of the good, And the paths of the righteous dost
keep
.
For the upright will
inhabit the land
, and the blameless
will
remain
in it ;
For the upright do
inhabit the earth
, And the perfect
are
left
in it ,
but
the wicked will
be
cut
off
from the land
, and the
unfaithful
will
be
uprooted.
And
the wicked from the earth
are
cut
off
, And treacherous
dealers
plucked
out
of
it!
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