Shared Word Translation
Proverbs 2
Seek Wisdom as Hidden Treasure
My child,
if you receive my words
and treasure my commandments within you,
making your ear attentive to wisdom
and inclining your heart to understanding;
if indeed you call out for insight
and raise your voice for understanding;
if you seek it like silver
and search for it like hidden treasures,
then you will understand the fear of the LORD
and find the knowledge of God.
The LORD Gives Wisdom
For the LORD gives wisdom;
from the LORD’s mouth
come knowledge and understanding.
The LORD stores up sound wisdom for the upright,
a shield to those who walk in integrity,
guarding the paths of justice
and keeping the way of the LORD’s faithful ones.
Then you will understand
righteousness and justice and equity—
every good path.
Wisdom Will Guard You
For wisdom will enter your heart,
and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
Discretion will watch over you;
understanding will guard you,
rescuing you from the way of evil,
from those who speak perverse things,
who abandon upright paths
to walk in ways of darkness,
who rejoice in doing evil
and delight in the perversity of evil,
whose paths are crooked
and whose ways are twisted.
Rescue from the Strange Woman
Wisdom will rescue you from the strange woman,
from the foreign woman
who makes her words smooth,
who abandons the companion of her youth
and forgets the covenant of her God.
For her house sinks down toward death,
and her paths toward the dead.
None who go to her return
or reach again the paths of life.
Walk in the Way of the Good
Therefore walk in the way of the good
and keep to the paths of the righteous.
For the upright will dwell in the land,
and those of integrity will remain in it,
but the wicked will be cut off from the land,
and the treacherous will be torn from it.