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Proverbs
Offers wisdom and advice on how to live a good and meaningful life.
Chapter 2
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1
KJV:
My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;
Geneva:
My sonne, if thou wilt receiue my wordes, and hide my commandements within thee,
2
KJV:
So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;
Geneva:
And cause thine eares to hearken vnto wisdome, and encline thine heart to vnderstanding,
3
KJV:
Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;
Geneva:
(For if thou callest after knowledge, and cryest for vnderstanding:
4
KJV:
If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;
Geneva:
If thou seekest her as siluer, & searchest for her as for treasures,
5
KJV:
Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.
Geneva:
Then shalt thou vnderstand the feare of the Lord, and finde the knowledge of God.
6
KJV:
For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.
Geneva:
For the Lorde giueth wisdome, out of his mouth commeth knowledge and vnderstanding.
7
KJV:
He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
Geneva:
He preserueth the state of the righteous: he is a shielde to them that walke vprightly,
8
KJV:
He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.
Geneva:
That they may keepe the wayes of iudgement: and he preserueth the way of his Saintes)
9
KJV:
Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.
Geneva:
Then shalt thou vnderstand righteousnes, and iudgement, and equitie, and euery good path.
10
KJV:
When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;
Geneva:
When wisdome entreth into thine heart, and knowledge deliteth thy soule,
11
KJV:
Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:
Geneva:
Then shall counsell preserue thee, and vnderstanding shall keepe thee,
12
KJV:
To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;
Geneva:
And deliuer thee from the euill way, and from the man that speaketh froward things,
13
KJV:
Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
Geneva:
And from them that leaue the wayes of righteousnes to walke in the wayes of darkenes:
14
KJV:
Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;
Geneva:
Which reioyce in doing euill, and delite in the frowardnesse of the wicked,
15
KJV:
Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:
Geneva:
Whose wayes are crooked and they are lewde in their paths.
16
KJV:
To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
Geneva:
And it shall deliuer thee from the strange woman, euen from the stranger, which flattereth with her wordes.
17
KJV:
Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
Geneva:
Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the couenant of her God.
18
KJV:
For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
Geneva:
Surely her house tendeth to death, and her paths vnto the dead.
19
KJV:
None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
Geneva:
All they that goe vnto her, returne not againe, neither take they holde of the wayes of life.
20
KJV:
That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.
Geneva:
Therefore walke thou in the way of good men, and keepe the wayes of the righteous.
21
KJV:
For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.
Geneva:
For the iust shal dwell in the land, and the vpright men shall remaine in it.
22
KJV:
But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
Geneva:
But the wicked shalbe cut off from ye earth, and the transgressours shalbe rooted out of it.
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