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
- Proverbs 2:1 Or “take, seize”
- Proverbs 2:3 Or “call to understanding”
- Proverbs 2:3 Or “carry, give”
- Proverbs 2:4 Literally “like the treasures”
- Proverbs 2:7 Or “hides, keeps”
- Proverbs 2:8 Or “preserve, guard, watch”
- Proverbs 2:10 Or “inner self”
- Proverbs 2:12 Or “evildoer”
- Proverbs 2:15 Literally “that in their ways are crooked”
- Proverbs 2:16 Or “makes smooth”
- Proverbs 2:18 Or “Rephaim”
- Proverbs 2:21 Or “earth”
- Proverbs 2:21 Or “innocent”
箴言 2
Chinese New Version (Simplified)
智慧使人认识 神
2 我儿，如果你接受我的话，
把我的诫命珍藏在心里，
2 留心听智慧，
致力求聪明；
3 如果你为求哲理而呼喊，
为求聪明而扬声；
4 如果你寻找它如同寻找银子，
搜寻它好象搜寻宝藏；
5 你就明白怎样敬畏耶和华，
并且获得对 神的认识。
6 因为耶和华赐人智慧，
知识和聪明都出自他的口。
7 他为正直人珍藏大智慧，
给行为完全的人作盾牌；
8 为要看顾正直人的路径，
护卫虔诚人的道路。
9 这样，你就明白公义、公正、正直，
以及一切善道。
智慧使人行走义路
10 智慧必进入你的心，
知识必使你欢悦。
11 明辨的能力必护卫你，
聪明必看顾你；
12 要救你脱离邪恶的道路，
脱离说话乖谬的人。
13 那些人离弃正道，
走上黑暗的道路。
14 他们喜欢行恶，
喜悦恶人的乖谬。
15 他们的道路弯曲，
他们的行径偏离正道。
16 智慧要救你脱离淫妇，
脱离说谄媚话的妓女。
17 她离弃年轻时的配偶，
忘记了 神的约；
18 她的家陷入死地，
她的路径下落阴间。
19 凡是进到她那里去的，都不能转回，
必得不着生路。
20 因此，智慧必使你走在良善人的道上，
持守义人的路。
21 因为正直人必在地上安居，
完全人必在世上存留；
22 但恶人必从地上除灭，
行事奸诈的必从世上拔除。
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