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Proverbs 2 Bible in Basic English
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1 My son, if you will take my words to your heart, storing up my laws in your mind;
1 HIJO mío, si tomares mis palabras, y mis mandamientos guardares dentro de ti,
1 My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you,
2 So that your ear gives attention to wisdom, and your heart is turned to knowledge;
2 Haciendo estar atento tu oído á la sabiduría; [si] inclinares tu corazón á la prudencia;
2 so as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;
3 Truly, if you are crying out for good sense, and your request is for knowledge;
3 Si clamares á la inteligencia, y á la prudencia dieres tu voz;
3 yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;
4 If you are looking for her as for silver, and searching for her as for stored-up wealth;
4 Si como á la plata la buscares, y la escudriñares como á tesoros;
4 if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures;
5 Then the fear of the Lord will be clear to you, and knowledge of God will be yours.
5 Entonces entenderás el temor de Jehová, y hallarás el conocimiento de Dios.
5 then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and find the knowledge of God.
6 For the Lord gives wisdom; out of his mouth come knowledge and reason:
6 Porque Jehová da la sabiduría, y de su boca [viene] el conocimiento y la inteligencia.
6 For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
7 He has salvation stored up for the upright, he is a breastplate to those in whom there is no evil;
7 El provee de sólida sabiduría á los rectos: [es] escudo á los que caminan rectamente.
7 He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
8 He keeps watch on the ways which are right, and takes care of those who have the fear of him.
8 [Es] el que guarda las veredas del juicio, y preserva el camino de sus santos.
8 that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his saints.
9 Then you will have knowledge of righteousness and right acting, and upright behaviour, even of every good way.
9 Entonces entenderás justicia, juicio, y equidad, y todo buen camino.
9 Then you will understand righteousness and justice, equity and every good path.
10 For wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasing to your soul;
10 Cuando la sabiduría entrare en tu corazón, y la ciencia fuere dulce á tu alma,
10 For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
11 Wise purposes will be watching over you, and knowledge will keep you;
11 El consejo te guardará, te preservará la inteligencia:
11 Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,
12 Giving you salvation from the evil man, from those whose words are false;
12 Para librarte del mal camino, de los hombres que hablan perversidades;
12 to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things,
13 Who give up the way of righteousness, to go by dark roads;
13 Que dejan las veredas derechas, por andar en caminos tenebrosos;
13 who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness,
14 Who take pleasure in wrongdoing, and have joy in the evil designs of the sinner;
14 Que se alegran haciendo mal, que se huelgan en las perversidades del vicio;
14 who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil,
15 Whose ways are not straight, and whose footsteps are turned to evil:
15 Cuyas veredas son torcidas, y torcidos sus caminos.
15 who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths,
16 To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue;
16 Para librarte de la mujer extraña, de la ajena que halaga con sus palabras;
16 to deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words,
17 Who is false to the husband of her early years, and does not keep the agreement of her God in mind:
17 Que desampara el príncipe de su mocedad, y se olvida del pacto de su Dios.
17 who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God;
18 For her house is on the way down to death; her footsteps go down to the shades:
18 Por lo cual su casa está inclinada á la muerte, y sus veredas hacia los muertos:
18 for her house leads down to death, her paths to the departed spirits.
19 Those who go to her do not come back again; their feet do not keep in the ways of life:
19 Todos los que á ella entraren, no volverán, ni tomarán las veredas de la vida.
19 None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life.
20 So that you may go in the way of good men, and keep in the footsteps of the upright.
20 Para que andes por el camino de los buenos, y guardes las veredas de los justos.
20 Therefore walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.
21 For the upright will be living in the land, and the good will have it for their heritage.
21 Porque los rectos habitarán la tierra, y los perfectos permanecerán en ella;
21 For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it.
22 But sinners will be cut off from the land, and those whose acts are false will be uprooted.
22 Mas los impíos serán cortados de la tierra, y los prevaricadores serán de ella desarraigados.
22 But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.
Cross references (22)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Proverbs 3:1; Proverbs 1:3; Proverbs 4:1; John 12:47–48; Deuteronomy 6:6–9
- 2 Proverbs 23:12; Proverbs 18:1; Psalm 90:12; Matthew 13:9; Psalm 119:111–112
- 3 James 1:5; Ephesians 1:17–18; Proverbs 3:6; Psalm 25:4–5; 1 Kings 3:9–12
- 4 Matthew 13:44; Matthew 19:29; Proverbs 16:16; Job 3:21; Proverbs 8:18–19
- 5 Proverbs 1:7; Jeremiah 24:7; Luke 10:22; 1 John 5:20; Luke 11:9–13
- 6 Ephesians 1:17–18; James 1:5; Luke 21:15; Isaiah 54:13; Job 32:8
- 7 James 3:15–17; Proverbs 30:5; Psalm 84:11; 1 Corinthians 3:18–19; 2 Timothy 3:15–17
- 8 Psalm 23:3; 1 Samuel 2:9; John 10:28–29; Psalm 145:20; Psalm 66:9
- 9 Jeremiah 6:16; Matthew 7:13–14; Isaiah 48:17; Psalm 143:8–10; Proverbs 1:2–6
- 10 Jeremiah 15:16; Colossians 3:16; Job 23:12; Proverbs 24:13–14; Psalm 104:34
- 11 Proverbs 4:6; Ephesians 5:15; Psalm 25:21; Ecclesiastes 10:10; Psalm 119:9–11
- 12 1 Corinthians 15:33; Proverbs 8:13; Proverbs 13:20; 2 Corinthians 6:17; Isaiah 59:3–5
- 13 John 3:19–20; Proverbs 4:19; 1 John 2:19; Proverbs 21:16; 2 Peter 2:20–22
- 14 Romans 1:32; Proverbs 10:23; Jeremiah 11:15; Luke 22:4–5; 1 Corinthians 13:6
- 15 Psalm 125:5; Proverbs 21:8; Philippians 2:15; Deuteronomy 32:5; Isaiah 59:8
- 16 Ecclesiastes 7:26; Proverbs 22:14; Proverbs 6:24; Proverbs 7:5–23; Proverbs 23:27
- 17 Ezekiel 16:59–60; Jeremiah 3:4; Ezekiel 16:8; Malachi 2:14–16; Proverbs 5:18
- 18 1 Corinthians 6:9–11; Proverbs 9:18; Galatians 5:19–21; Revelation 21:8; Ephesians 5:5
- 19 Ecclesiastes 7:26; Psalm 81:12; Hosea 4:14; Matthew 19:24–26; Hebrews 6:18
- 20 Hebrews 6:12; 3 John 11; Psalm 119:115; Psalm 119:63; Proverbs 13:20
- 21 Psalm 84:11; Psalm 37:29; Psalm 37:9; Proverbs 10:30; Job 42:12
- 22 Psalm 52:5; Deuteronomy 7:22; Isaiah 3:10–11; Psalm 37:28; Proverbs 10:30
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
How these were chosen
“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
For in these very books on the study of which they are intent, they read, "The Lord giveth wisdom: out of His mouth cometh knowledge and understanding;" and it is from Him they have received their very desire for knowledge, if it is wedded to piety.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)