Verse 9
Proverbs 2:9
World English Bible, British Edition
9
Then you will understand righteousness and justice,
equity and every good path.
Original Language Text
hebrew
אָ֗ז תָּ֭בִין צֶ֣דֶק וּ/מִשְׁפָּ֑ט וּ֝/מֵישָׁרִ֗ים כָּל מַעְגַּל טֽוֹב
English Translation
Then you will understand righteousness and justice and uprightness, every good path.
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Chapter 2 Context
1
My son, if you will receive my words,
and store up my commandments within you,
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so as to turn your ear to wisdom,
and apply your heart to understanding;
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yes, if you call out for discernment,
and lift up your voice for understanding;
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if you seek her as silver,
and search for her as for hidden treasures;
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then you will understand the fear of the LORD,
and find the knowledge of God (Elohim).
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For the LORD gives wisdom.
Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
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He lays up sound wisdom for the upright.
He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
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that he may guard the paths of justice,
and preserve the way of his saints.
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Then you will understand righteousness and justice,
equity and every good path.
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For wisdom will enter into your heart.
Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
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Discretion will watch over you.
Understanding will keep you,
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to deliver you from the way of evil,
from the men who speak perverse things,
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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 evil,
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who are crooked in their ways,
and wayward in their paths,
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to deliver you from the strange woman,
even from the foreigner who flatters with her words,
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who forsakes the friend of her youth,
and forgets the covenant of her God (Elohim);
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for her house leads down to death,
her paths to the departed spirits.
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None who go to her return again,
neither do they attain to the paths of life.
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Therefore walk in the way of good men,
and keep the paths of the righteous.
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For the upright will dwell in the land.
The perfect will remain in it.
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But the wicked will be cut off from the land.
The treacherous will be rooted out of it.
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