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Text -- Proverbs 2:1-19 (NET)
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Benefits of Seeking Wisdom
2:1 My child , if you receive my words , and store up my commands within you,
2:2 by making your ear attentive to wisdom , and by turning your heart to understanding ,
2:3 indeed , if you call out for discernment – raise your voice for understanding –
2:4 if you seek it like silver , and search for it like hidden treasure ,
2:5 then you will understand how to fear the Lord , and you will discover knowledge about God .
2:6 For the Lord gives wisdom , and from his mouth comes knowledge and understanding .
2:7 He stores up effective counsel for the upright , and is like a shield for those who live with integrity ,
2:8 to guard the paths of the righteous and to protect the way of his pious ones .
2:9 Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity – every good way .
2:10 For wisdom will enter your heart , and moral knowledge will be attractive to you .
2:11 Discretion will protect you, understanding will guard you,
2:12 to deliver you from the way of the wicked , from those speaking perversity ,
2:13 who leave the upright paths to walk on the dark ways ,
2:14 who delight in doing evil , they rejoice in perverse evil ;
2:15 whose paths are morally crooked , and who are devious in their ways ;
2:16 to deliver you from the adulteress , from the sexually loose woman who speaks flattering words ;
2:17 who leaves the husband from her younger days , and forgets her marriage covenant made before God .
2:18 For her house sinks down to death , and her paths lead to the place of the departed spirits .
2:19 None who go in to her will return , nor will they reach the paths of life .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Wisdom |
Knowledge |
Young Men |
Righteousness |
Personification |
Wicked |
Chastity |
Adultery |
Associations |
Lies and Deceits |
Women |
PATH; PATHWAY |
Righteous |
Temptation |
Hunger |
Seekers |
Desire |
Integrity |
Lasciviousness |
God |
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NET Notes -> Pro 2:1; Pro 2:1; Pro 2:1; Pro 2:1; Pro 2:2; Pro 2:2; Pro 2:2; Pro 2:2; Pro 2:2; Pro 2:3; Pro 2:3; Pro 2:3; Pro 2:3; Pro 2:4; Pro 2:4; Pro 2:4; Pro 2:4; Pro 2:5; Pro 2:5; Pro 2:5; Pro 2:5; Pro 2:5; Pro 2:6; Pro 2:6; Pro 2:6; Pro 2:6; Pro 2:7; Pro 2:7; Pro 2:7; Pro 2:7; Pro 2:7; Pro 2:7; Pro 2:7; Pro 2:7; Pro 2:8; Pro 2:8; Pro 2:8; Pro 2:8; Pro 2:8; Pro 2:9; Pro 2:9; Pro 2:9; Pro 2:9; Pro 2:10; Pro 2:10; Pro 2:10; Pro 2:10; Pro 2:11; Pro 2:11; Pro 2:12; Pro 2:12; Pro 2:12; Pro 2:12; Pro 2:13; Pro 2:13; Pro 2:13; Pro 2:14; Pro 2:14; Pro 2:14; Pro 2:14; Pro 2:15; Pro 2:15; Pro 2:15; Pro 2:16; Pro 2:16; Pro 2:16; Pro 2:16; Pro 2:16; Pro 2:16; Pro 2:17; Pro 2:17; Pro 2:17; Pro 2:17; Pro 2:17; Pro 2:18; Pro 2:18; Pro 2:18; Pro 2:18; Pro 2:19; Pro 2:19
NET Notes: Pro 2:1 The verb “to store up” (צָפַן, tsafan; cf. NAB, NLT “treasure”) in the second colon qualifies th...
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NET Notes: Pro 2:3 Heb “give your voice”; the expression is idiomatic for raising or lifting the voice to make a sound that carries further (e.g., Jer 2:15)....
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NET Notes: Pro 2:4 The verb חָפַשׂ (khafas) means “to dig; to search” (BDB 344 s.v.; cf. NCV “hunt for it”). ...
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NET Notes: Pro 2:6 The verb “comes” does not appear in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for the sake of clarity and smoothness.
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NET Notes: Pro 2:7 Heb “those who walk of integrity.” The noun תֹם (tom, “integrity”) functions as a genitive of manner.
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NET Notes: Pro 2:8 The noun חֶסֶד (khesed, “the pious”) describes those who show “covenantal faithful love” or R...
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NET Notes: Pro 2:13 Heb “ways of darkness.” Darkness is often metaphorical for sinfulness, ignorance, or oppression. Their way of life lacks spiritual illumin...
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NET Notes: Pro 2:14 Heb “the perversity of evil” (so NASB). The noun רָע (ra’, “evil”) functions as an attributed genitive...
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NET Notes: Pro 2:15 The Niphal participle of לוּז (luz, “devious; crooked”) describes conduct that is morally deceptive, crafty, and c...
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NET Notes: Pro 2:16 For descriptions of seductive speech, see Prov 5:3 where it is compared to olive oil, and 7:14-20 where such speech is recorded.
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NET Notes: Pro 2:17 Heb “covenant of God.” The genitive-construct could mean “covenant made before God.” The woman and her husband had made a marr...
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