잠언 2

Wisdom is worth the search

¹My son, if you take hold of what I say \q and hide my commands away like treasure, ²so that your ear is tuned to wisdom \q and your heart leans toward understanding; ³if you truly cry out for insight \q and raise your voice to call for understanding, ⁴if you go looking for it as you would for silver, \q and hunt for it as for buried treasure, ⁵then you will come to see what the fear of the LORD is, \q and you will discover what it is to know God. ⁶For it is the LORD who gives wisdom; \q knowledge and understanding come from his mouth. ⁷He keeps sound wisdom in reserve for the upright; \q he shields those who live with integrity, ⁸watching over the paths of justice \q and protecting the way of those who are loyal to him. ⁹Then you will understand righteousness, justice and fairness, \q and every good road to take. ¹⁰For wisdom will come into your heart, \q and knowing will become a delight to you. ¹¹foresight will stand guard over you, \q and understanding will keep you safe, ¹²rescuing you from the road of evil, \q from people whose speech twists the truth, ¹³who desert the honest road \q to go walking down dark ways, ¹⁴who enjoy doing wrong \q and celebrate the twisted ways of evil, ¹⁵people whose roads wind and twist, \q who go astray at every turn. ¹⁶It will also rescue you from the woman who is not yours to have, \q the stranger whose words are smooth and flattering,^{a 17}who has turned her back on the man she married when young, \q and let the covenant of her God slip from her mind.^{b 18}Her house slides down into death, \q and her paths end among the dead.^{c 19}None who go in to her ever come back, \q nor do they reach the paths of life again. ²⁰So you will go the way good people go \q and stay on the paths of the righteous. ²¹For it is the upright who will live in the land, \q and those with integrity who will remain there,^{d 22}but the wicked will be removed from the land, \q and the treacherous will be uprooted from it.