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Proverbi 2
Conferenza Episcopale Italiana

La Sapienza contro le cattive compagnie

2 Figlio mio, se tu accoglierai le mie parole
e custodirai in te i miei precetti,
2 tendendo il tuo orecchio alla sapienza,
inclinando il tuo cuore alla prudenza,
3 se appunto invocherai l'intelligenza
e chiamerai la saggezza,
4 se la ricercherai come l'argento
e per essa scaverai come per i tesori,
5 allora comprenderai il timore del Signore
e troverai la scienza di Dio,
6 perché il Signore dà la sapienza,
dalla sua bocca esce scienza e prudenza.
7 Egli riserva ai giusti la sua protezione,
è scudo a coloro che agiscono con rettitudine,
8 vegliando sui sentieri della giustizia
e custodendo le vie dei suoi amici.
9 Allora comprenderai l'equità e la giustizia,
e la rettitudine con tutte le vie del bene,
10 perché la sapienza entrerà nel tuo cuore
e la scienza delizierà il tuo animo.
11 La riflessione ti custodirà
e l'intelligenza veglierà su di te,
12 per salvarti dalla via del male,
dall'uomo che parla di propositi perversi,
13 da coloro che abbandonano i retti sentieri
per camminare nelle vie delle tenebre,
14 che godono nel fare il male,
gioiscono dei loro propositi perversi;
15 i cui sentieri sono tortuosi
e le cui strade sono oblique,
16 per salvarti dalla donna straniera,
dalla forestiera che ha parole seducenti,
17 che abbandona il compagno della sua giovinezza
e dimentica l'alleanza con il suo Dio.
18 La sua casa conduce verso la morte
e verso il regno delle ombre i suoi sentieri.
19 Quanti vanno da lei non fanno ritorno,
non raggiungono i sentieri della vita.
20 Per questo tu camminerai sulla strada dei buoni
e ti atterrai ai sentieri dei giusti,
21 perché gli uomini retti abiteranno nel paese
e gli integri vi resteranno,
22 ma i malvagi saranno sterminati dalla terra,
gli infedeli ne saranno strappati.

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Proverbs 2
Lexham English Bible

The Benefits of Wisdom

2 My child, if you will receive[a] my sayings,
    and hide my commands with you,
2 in order to incline your ear toward wisdom,
    then you shall apply your heart to understanding.
3 For if you cry out for understanding,[b]
    if you lift[c] your voice for insight,
4 if you seek her like silver
    and search her out like treasure,[d]
5 then you will understand the fear of Yahweh,
    and the knowledge of God you will find.
6 For Yahweh will give wisdom;
    from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
7 For the upright, he stores[e] sound judgment, a shield for those who walk uprightly,
8 in order to guard paths of justice
    and keep[f] the way of his faithful ones.
9 Then you will understand righteousness and justice
    and uprightness—every good course—
10 for wisdom will enter your heart,
    and knowledge will be pleasing to your soul.[g]
11 Discretion will watch over you;
    understanding will protect you,
12 in order to deliver you from the way of evil,[h]
    from a man who speaks devious things—
13 those who forsake the paths of uprightness
    to walk in ways of darkness,
14 those who are happy to do evil,
    for they delight in the deviousness of evil,
15 who are crooked in their ways,[i]
    and devious in their paths;
16 in order to deliver you from a strange woman,
    from a foreign woman who flatters[j] with her sayings,
17 she who forsakes the partner of her youth
    and has forgotten the covenant of her God,
18 for her house sinks to death,
    and to the dead[k] are her paths.
19 Of all who go to her, none shall return,
    nor do they reach paths of life.
20 So that you will walk on the road of those who are good,
    and the paths of those who are righteous you shall keep.
21 For those who are upright will dwell in the land,[l]
    and those who are blameless[m] will remain in it.
22 And those who are wicked will be cut off from the land,
    and those who are treacherous will be uprooted from it.

Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 2:1 Or “take, seize”
  2. Proverbs 2:3 Or “call to understanding”
  3. Proverbs 2:3 Or “carry, give”
  4. Proverbs 2:4 Literally “like the treasures”
  5. Proverbs 2:7 Or “hides, keeps”
  6. Proverbs 2:8 Or “preserve, guard, watch”
  7. Proverbs 2:10 Or “inner self”
  8. Proverbs 2:12 Or “evildoer”
  9. Proverbs 2:15 Literally “that in their ways are crooked”
  10. Proverbs 2:16 Or “makes smooth”
  11. Proverbs 2:18 Or “Rephaim”
  12. Proverbs 2:21 Or “earth”
  13. Proverbs 2:21 Or “innocent”
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Proverbs 2
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Moral Benefits of Wisdom

2 My son,(A) if you accept my words
    and store up my commands within you,
2 turning your ear to wisdom
    and applying your heart to understanding(B)—
3 indeed, if you call out for insight(C)
    and cry aloud for understanding,
4 and if you look for it as for silver
    and search for it as for hidden treasure,(D)
5 then you will understand the fear of the Lord
    and find the knowledge of God.(E)
6 For the Lord gives wisdom;(F)
    from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.(G)
7 He holds success in store for the upright,
    he is a shield(H) to those whose walk is blameless,(I)
8 for he guards the course of the just
    and protects the way of his faithful ones.(J)

9 Then you will understand(K) what is right and just
    and fair—every good path.
10 For wisdom will enter your heart,(L)
    and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
11 Discretion will protect you,
    and understanding will guard you.(M)

12 Wisdom will save(N) you from the ways of wicked men,
    from men whose words are perverse,
13 who have left the straight paths
    to walk in dark ways,(O)
14 who delight in doing wrong
    and rejoice in the perverseness of evil,(P)
15 whose paths are crooked(Q)
    and who are devious in their ways.(R)

16 Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman,(S)
    from the wayward woman with her seductive words,
17 who has left the partner of her youth
    and ignored the covenant she made before God.[a](T)
18 Surely her house leads down to death
    and her paths to the spirits of the dead.(U)
19 None who go to her return
    or attain the paths of life.(V)

20 Thus you will walk in the ways of the good
    and keep to the paths of the righteous.
21 For the upright will live in the land,(W)
    and the blameless will remain in it;
22 but the wicked(X) will be cut off from the land,(Y)
    and the unfaithful will be torn from it.(Z)

Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 2:17 Or covenant of her God
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