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Mon fils, si tu reçois mes paroles, Et si tu gardes avec toi mes préceptes,

Si tu rends ton oreille attentive à la sagesse, Et si tu inclines ton coeur à l'intelligence;

Oui, si tu appelles la sagesse, Et si tu élèves ta voix vers l'intelligence,

Si tu la cherches comme l'argent, Si tu la poursuis comme un trésor,

Alors tu comprendras la crainte de l'Éternel, Et tu trouveras la connaissance de Dieu.

Car l'Éternel donne la sagesse; De sa bouche sortent la connaissance et l'intelligence;

Il tient en réserve le salut pour les hommes droits, Un bouclier pour ceux qui marchent dans l'intégrité,

En protégeant les sentiers de la justice Et en gardant la voie de ses fidèles.

Alors tu comprendras la justice, l'équité, La droiture, toutes les routes qui mènent au bien.

10 Car la sagesse viendra dans ton coeur, Et la connaissance fera les délices de ton âme;

11 La réflexion veillera sur toi, L'intelligence te gardera,

12 Pour te délivrer de la voie du mal, De l'homme qui tient des discours pervers,

13 De ceux qui abandonnent les sentiers de la droiture Afin de marcher dans des chemins ténébreux,

14 Qui trouvent de la jouissance à faire le mal, Qui mettent leur plaisir dans la perversité,

15 Qui suivent des sentiers détournés, Et qui prennent des routes tortueuses;

16 Pour te délivrer de la femme étrangère, De l'étrangère qui emploie des paroles doucereuses,

17 Qui abandonne l'ami de sa jeunesse, Et qui oublie l'alliance de son Dieu;

18 Car sa maison penche vers la mort, Et sa route mène chez les morts:

19 Aucun de ceux qui vont à elle ne revient, Et ne retrouve les sentiers de la vie.

20 Tu marcheras ainsi dans la voie des gens de bien, Tu garderas les sentiers des justes.

21 Car les hommes droits habiteront le pays, Les hommes intègres y resteront;

22 Mais les méchants seront retranchés du pays, Les infidèles en seront arrachés.

The Value of Wisdom

(A)My son, (B)if you receive my words
    and treasure up my commandments with you,
making your ear attentive to wisdom
    and inclining your heart to understanding;
yes, if you call out for insight
    and raise your voice (C)for understanding,
if you seek it like (D)silver
    and search for it as for (E)hidden treasures,
then (F)you will understand the fear of the Lord
    and find the knowledge of God.
For (G)the Lord gives wisdom;
    from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;
he stores up sound wisdom for the upright;
    he is (H)a shield to those who (I)walk in integrity,
guarding the paths of justice
    and (J)watching over the way of his (K)saints.
(L)Then you will understand (M)righteousness and justice
    and equity, every good path;
10 for wisdom will come into your heart,
    and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;
11 (N)discretion will (O)watch over you,
    understanding will guard you,
12 delivering you from the way of evil,
    from men of perverted speech,
13 who forsake the paths of uprightness
    to (P)walk in the ways of darkness,
14 who (Q)rejoice in doing evil
    and (R)delight in the perverseness of evil,
15 men whose (S)paths are crooked,
    (T)and who are (U)devious in their ways.

16 So (V)you will be delivered from the forbidden[a] woman,
    from (W)the adulteress[b] with (X)her smooth words,
17 who forsakes (Y)the companion of her youth
    and forgets (Z)the covenant of her God;
18 (AA)for her house sinks down to death,
    and her paths to the departed;[c]
19 none who go to her come back,
    nor do they regain the paths of life.

20 So you will walk in the way of the good
    and keep to the paths of the righteous.
21 For the upright (AB)will inhabit the land,
    and those with integrity will remain in it,
22 but the wicked will be (AC)cut off from the land,
    and the treacherous will be (AD)rooted out of it.

Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 2:16 Hebrew strange
  2. Proverbs 2:16 Hebrew foreign woman
  3. Proverbs 2:18 Hebrew to the Rephaim

Moral Benefits of Wisdom

My son,(A) if you accept my words
    and store up my commands within you,
turning your ear to wisdom
    and applying your heart to understanding(B)
indeed, if you call out for insight(C)
    and cry aloud for understanding,
and if you look for it as for silver
    and search for it as for hidden treasure,(D)
then you will understand the fear of the Lord
    and find the knowledge of God.(E)
For the Lord gives wisdom;(F)
    from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.(G)
He holds success in store for the upright,
    he is a shield(H) to those whose walk is blameless,(I)
for he guards the course of the just
    and protects the way of his faithful ones.(J)

Then you will understand(K) what is right and just
    and fair—every good path.
10 For wisdom will enter your heart,(L)
    and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
11 Discretion will protect you,
    and understanding will guard you.(M)

12 Wisdom will save(N) you from the ways of wicked men,
    from men whose words are perverse,
13 who have left the straight paths
    to walk in dark ways,(O)
14 who delight in doing wrong
    and rejoice in the perverseness of evil,(P)
15 whose paths are crooked(Q)
    and who are devious in their ways.(R)

16 Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman,(S)
    from the wayward woman with her seductive words,
17 who has left the partner of her youth
    and ignored the covenant she made before God.[a](T)
18 Surely her house leads down to death
    and her paths to the spirits of the dead.(U)
19 None who go to her return
    or attain the paths of life.(V)

20 Thus you will walk in the ways of the good
    and keep to the paths of the righteous.
21 For the upright will live in the land,(W)
    and the blameless will remain in it;
22 but the wicked(X) will be cut off from the land,(Y)
    and the unfaithful will be torn from it.(Z)

Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 2:17 Or covenant of her God