Proverbi 2
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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.
Proverbs 2
World English Bible
2 My son, if you will receive my words,
and store up my commandments within you,
2 so as to turn your ear to wisdom,
and apply your heart to understanding;
3 yes, if you call out for discernment,
and lift up your voice for understanding;
4 if you seek her as silver,
and search for her as for hidden treasures;
5 then you will understand the fear of Yahweh,
and find the knowledge of God.[a]
6 For Yahweh gives wisdom.
Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
7 He lays up sound wisdom for the upright.
He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
8 that he may guard the paths of justice,
and preserve the way of his saints.
9 Then you will understand righteousness and justice,
equity and every good path.
10 For wisdom will enter into your heart.
Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
11 Discretion will watch over you.
Understanding will keep you,
12 to deliver you from the way of evil,
from the men who speak perverse things,
13 who forsake the paths of uprightness,
to walk in the ways of darkness,
14 who rejoice to do evil,
and delight in the perverseness of evil,
15 who are crooked in their ways,
and wayward in their paths,
16 to deliver you from the strange woman,
even from the foreigner who flatters with her words,
17 who forsakes the friend of her youth,
and forgets the covenant of her God;
18 for her house leads down to death,
her paths to the departed spirits.
19 None who go to her return again,
neither do they attain to the paths of life.
20 Therefore walk in the way of good men,
and keep the paths of the righteous.
21 For the upright will dwell in the land.
The perfect will remain in it.
22 But the wicked will be cut off from the land.
The treacherous will be rooted out of it.
Footnotes
- 2:5 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).
Proverbs 2
21st Century King James Version
2 My son, if thou wilt receive my words and hide my commandments within thee,
2 so that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom and apply thine heart to understanding;
3 yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;
4 if thou seekest her as silver and searchest for her as for hidden treasure,
5 then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.
6 For the Lord giveth wisdom; out of His mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.
7 He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous; He is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
8 He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of His saints.
9 Then shalt thou understand righteousness and judgment and equity, yea, every good path.
10 When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul,
11 discretion shall preserve thee, and understanding shall keep thee,
12 to deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from men that speaketh froward things,
13 who leave the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,
14 who rejoice to do evil and delight in the frowardness of the wicked,
15 whose ways are crooked and who are froward in their paths.
16 Wisdom will deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger, who flattereth with her words,
17 who forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God;
18 for her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
19 None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
20 Thus thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep to the paths of the righteous.
21 For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it;
22 but the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
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