1My son, if you accept my words and hide my commandments within you,My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you,My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;My son, if thou wilt receive my words, And lay up my commandments with thee;2if you incline your ear to wisdom and direct your heart to understanding,so as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;So as to incline thine ear unto wisdom, And apply thy heart to understanding;3if you truly call out to insight and lift your voice to understanding,yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;Yea, if thou cry after discernment, And lift up thy voice for understanding;4if you seek it like silver and search it out like hidden treasure,if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures;If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;If thou seek her as silver, And search for her as for hid treasures:5then you will discern the fear of the LORD and discover the knowledge of God.then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and find the knowledge of God.Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.Then shalt thou understand the fear of Jehovah, And find the knowledge of God.6For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.For the Lord giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.For Jehovah giveth wisdom; Out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding:7He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk with integrity,He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.He layeth up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to them that walk in integrity;8to guard the paths of justice and protect the way of His saints.that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his saints.He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.That he may guard the paths of justice, And preserve the way of his saints.9Then you will discern righteousness and justice and equity—every good path.Then you will understand righteousness and justice, equity and every good path.Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.Then shalt thou understand righteousness and justice, And equity, yea, every good path.10For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will delight your soul.For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;For wisdom shall enter into thy heart, And knowledge shall be pleasant unto thy soul;11Discretion will watch over you, and understanding will guard you,Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:Discretion shall watch over thee; Understanding shall keep thee:12to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perversity,to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things,To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;To deliver thee from the way of evil, From the men that speak perverse things;13from those who leave the straight paths to walk in the ways of darkness,who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness,Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;Who forsake the paths of uprightness, To walk in the ways of darkness;14from those who enjoy doing evil and rejoice in the twistedness of evil,who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil,Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;Who rejoice to do evil, And delight in the perverseness of evil;15whose paths are crooked and whose ways are devious.who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths,Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:Who are crooked in their ways, And wayward in their paths:16It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive wordsto deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words,To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words;17who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God;Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.That forsaketh the friend of her youth, And forgetteth the covenant of her God:18For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits.for her house leads down to death, her paths to the departed spirits.For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.For her house inclineth unto death, And her paths unto the dead;19None who go to her return or negotiate the paths of life.None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life.None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.None that go unto her return again, Neither do they attain unto the paths of life:20So you will follow in the ways of the good, and keep to the paths of the righteous.Therefore walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, And keep the paths of the righteous.21For the upright will inhabit the land, and the blameless will remain in it;For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it.For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.For the upright shall dwell in the land, And the perfect shall remain in it.22but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be uprooted.But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, And the treacherous shall be rooted out of it.
Berean Standard Bible (public domain).World English Bible (public domain).King James Version (public domain in the US).American Standard Version, 1901 (public domain).