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2:1  My ·child [or son], ·listen to [grasp] what I say and ·remember [L store up] what I command you.
2:2  ·Listen carefully [L Bend your ear] to wisdom; ·set your mind on [L stretch your heart to] understanding.
2:3  Cry out for wisdom, and ·beg [shout out loud] for understanding.
2:4  ·Search [Seek] for it like silver, and ·hunt [search] for it like hidden treasure.
2:5  Then you will understand ·respect [fear; awe; 1:7] for the Lord, and you will find ·that you know God [the knowledge of God].
2:6  Only the Lord gives wisdom; ·he gives [L from his mouth comes] knowledge and understanding.
2:7  He stores up ·wisdom [resourcefulness] for those who ·are honest [have integrity]. Like a shield he protects the innocent.
2:8  He ·makes sure that justice is done [L guards the path of justice], and he protects those who are loyal to him.
2:9  Then you will understand what is ·honest [righteous] and ·fair [just] and what is ·the good and right thing to do [L virtuous, every good course/path].
2:10  Wisdom will ·come into your mind [penetrate your heart], and knowledge will be ·pleasing [attractive] to you.
2:11  ·Good sense [Discretion] will protect you; understanding will guard you.
2:12  It will keep you from the ·wicked [L evil path], from those whose words are ·bad [perverted; twisted],
2:13  who ·don’t do what is right [L abandoned the road of integrity] but ·what is evil [L go on dark paths].
2:14  They enjoy doing wrong and are happy ·to do what is crooked and [L with their twisted] evil.
2:15  What they do is ·wrong [confused], and ·their ways are dishonest [L they go on wrong courses].
2:16  It [C Wisdom] will save you from the ·unfaithful wife [L strange woman] ·who tries to lead you into adultery [L from the foreign woman] with ·pleasing words [flattery; compliments].
2:17  She leaves ·the husband she married when she was young [L the intimate relationship of her youth]. She ·ignores [forgets] ·the promise she made before [L her covenant with] God.
2:18  Her house ·is on the way [L sinks down] to death; ·those who took that path are now all dead [or her paths come down to her dead ancestors].
2:19  No one who goes to her comes back or walks the path of life again.
2:20  ·But wisdom will help you be good [or Stay on the path of good people] and ·do what is right [guard the road of the righteous].
2:21  Those who ·are honest [have integrity/virtue] will live in the land, and those who are ·innocent [blameless] will remain in it.
2:22  But the wicked will be ·removed [L cut off] from the land, and the unfaithful will be ·thrown out of [L uprooted from] it.