Verse 2
Proverbs 2:2
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
2
That thy ear may hearken to wisdom: Incline thy heart to know prudence:
Original Language Text
hebrew
לְ/הַקְשִׁ֣יב לַֽ/חָכְמָ֣ה אָזְנֶ֑/ךָ תַּטֶּ֥ה לִ֝בְּ/ךָ֗ לַ/תְּבוּנָֽה
English Translation
To incline your ear to wisdom and to apply your heart to understanding.
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Chapter 2 Context
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My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and wilt hide my commandments with thee,
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That thy ear may hearken to wisdom: Incline thy heart to know prudence:
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For if thou shalt call for wisdom, and incline thy heart to prudence:
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If thou shalt seek her as money, and shalt dig for her as for a treasure:
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Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and shalt find the knowledge of God (Elohim).
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Because the Lord giveth wisdom: and out of his mouth cometh prudence and knowledge.
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He will keep the salvation of the righteous, and protect them that walk in simplicity.
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Keeping the paths of justice, and guarding the ways of saints.
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Then shalt thou understand justice, and judgment, and equity, and every good path.
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If wisdom shall enter into thy heart, and knowledge please thy soul:
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Counsel shall keep thee, and prudence shall preserve thee,
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That thou mayst be delivered from the evil way, and from the man that speaketh perverse things:
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Who leave the right way, and walk by dark ways:
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Who are glad when they have done evil, and rejoice in most wicked things:
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Whose ways are perverse, and their steps infamous.
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That thou mayst be delivered from the strange women, and from the stranger, who softeneth her words:
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And forsaketh the guide of her youth,
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And hath forgotten the covenant of her God (Elohim): for her house inclineth unto death, and her pat...
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None that go in unto her shall return again, neither shall they take hold of the paths of life,
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That thou mayst walk in a good way: and mayst keep the paths of the just.
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For they that are upright shall dwell in the earth, and the simple shall continue in it.
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But the wicked shall be destroyed from the earth: and they that do unjustly shall be taken away from...
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