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Proverbs 2 Brenton's English Septuagint

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  • Individual translator
  • OT: Septuagint (Greek)
  • Septuagint Old Testament (no New Testament)
  • Formal (word for word)
  • 1844
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Brenton Brenton's English Septuagint
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
1 [My] son, if thou wilt receive the utterance of my commandment, and hide it with thee;
1 My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you,
2 thine ear shall hearken to wisdom; thou shalt also apply thine heart to understanding, and shalt apply it to the instruction of thy son.
2 so as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;
3 For if thou shalt call to wisdom, and utter thy voice for understanding;
3 yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;
4 and if thou shalt seek it as silver, and search diligently for it as for treasures;
4 if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures;
5 then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.
5 then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and find the knowledge of God.
6 For the Lord gives wisdom; and from his presence [come] knowledge and understanding,
6 For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
7 and he treasures up salvation for them that walk uprightly: he will protect their way;
7 He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
8 that he may guard the righteous ways: and he will preserve the way of them that fear him.
8 that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his saints.
9 Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment; and shalt direct all thy course aright.
9 Then you will understand righteousness and justice, equity and every good path.
10 For if wisdom shall come into thine understanding, and discernment shall seem pleasing to thy soul,
10 For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
11 good counsel shall guard thee, and holy understanding shall keep thee;
11 Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,
12 to deliver thee from the evil way, and from the man that speaks nothing faithfully.
12 to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things,
13 Alas [for those] who forsake right paths, to walk in ways of darkness;
13 who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness,
14 who rejoice in evils, and delight in wicked perverseness;
14 who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil,
15 whose paths are crooked, and their courses winding;
15 who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths,
16 to remove thee far from the straight way, and to estrange thee from a righteous purpose. [My] son, let not evil counsel overtake thee,
16 to deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words,
17 [of her] who has forsaken the instruction of her youth, and forgotten the covenant of God.
17 who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God;
18 For she has fixed her house near death, and [guided] her wheels near Hades with the giants.
18 for her house leads down to death, her paths to the departed spirits.
19 None that go by her shall return, neither shall they take hold of right paths, for they are not apprehended of the years of life.
19 None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life.
20 For had they gone in good paths, they would have found the paths of righteousness easy.
20 Therefore walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.
21 For the upright shall dwell in the earth, and the holy shall be left behind in it.
21 For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it.
22 The paths of the ungodly shall perish out of the earth, and transgressors shall be driven away from it.
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. 1 Proverbs 3:1; Proverbs 1:3; Proverbs 4:1; John 12:47–48; Deuteronomy 6:6–9
  2. 2 Proverbs 23:12; Proverbs 18:1; Psalm 90:12; Matthew 13:9; Psalm 119:111–112
  3. 3 James 1:5; Ephesians 1:17–18; Proverbs 3:6; Psalm 25:4–5; 1 Kings 3:9–12
  4. 4 Matthew 13:44; Matthew 19:29; Proverbs 16:16; Job 3:21; Proverbs 8:18–19
  5. 5 Proverbs 1:7; Jeremiah 24:7; Luke 10:22; 1 John 5:20; Luke 11:9–13
  6. 6 Ephesians 1:17–18; James 1:5; Luke 21:15; Isaiah 54:13; Job 32:8
  7. 7 James 3:15–17; Proverbs 30:5; Psalm 84:11; 1 Corinthians 3:18–19; 2 Timothy 3:15–17
  8. 8 Psalm 23:3; 1 Samuel 2:9; John 10:28–29; Psalm 145:20; Psalm 66:9
  9. 9 Jeremiah 6:16; Matthew 7:13–14; Isaiah 48:17; Psalm 143:8–10; Proverbs 1:2–6
  10. 10 Jeremiah 15:16; Colossians 3:16; Job 23:12; Proverbs 24:13–14; Psalm 104:34
  11. 11 Proverbs 4:6; Ephesians 5:15; Psalm 25:21; Ecclesiastes 10:10; Psalm 119:9–11
  12. 12 1 Corinthians 15:33; Proverbs 8:13; Proverbs 13:20; 2 Corinthians 6:17; Isaiah 59:3–5
  13. 13 John 3:19–20; Proverbs 4:19; 1 John 2:19; Proverbs 21:16; 2 Peter 2:20–22
  14. 14 Romans 1:32; Proverbs 10:23; Jeremiah 11:15; Luke 22:4–5; 1 Corinthians 13:6
  15. 15 Psalm 125:5; Proverbs 21:8; Philippians 2:15; Deuteronomy 32:5; Isaiah 59:8
  16. 16 Ecclesiastes 7:26; Proverbs 22:14; Proverbs 6:24; Proverbs 7:5–23; Proverbs 23:27
  17. 17 Ezekiel 16:59–60; Jeremiah 3:4; Ezekiel 16:8; Malachi 2:14–16; Proverbs 5:18
  18. 18 1 Corinthians 6:9–11; Proverbs 9:18; Galatians 5:19–21; Revelation 21:8; Ephesians 5:5
  19. 19 Ecclesiastes 7:26; Psalm 81:12; Hosea 4:14; Matthew 19:24–26; Hebrews 6:18
  20. 20 Hebrews 6:12; 3 John 11; Psalm 119:115; Psalm 119:63; Proverbs 13:20
  21. 21 Psalm 84:11; Psalm 37:29; Psalm 37:9; Proverbs 10:30; Job 42:12
  22. 22 Psalm 52:5; Deuteronomy 7:22; Isaiah 3:10–11; Psalm 37:28; Proverbs 10:30

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

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).

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“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).

  1. Quotes verse 2:6 Augustine of Hippo, On Christian Doctrine (Book III, Chapter 37)

    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)