### Douay Rheims Bible

Proverbs 1

## The Proverbs

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| # Chapter 2
#### 1 | My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and wilt hide my commandments with thee,
#### 2 | That thy ear may hearken to wisdom: Incline thy heart to know prudence:
#### 3 | For if thou shalt call for wisdom, and incline thy heart to prudence:
#### 4 | If thou shalt seek her as money, and shalt dig for her as for a treasure:
#### 5 | Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and shalt find the knowledge of God.
#### 6 | Because the Lord giveth wisdom: and out of his mouth cometh prudence and knowledge.
#### 7 | He will keep the salvation of the righteous, and protect them that walk in simplicity.
#### 8 | Keeping the paths of justice, and guarding the ways of saints.
#### 9 | Then shalt thou understand justice, and judgment, and equity, and every good path.
#### 10 | If wisdom shall enter into thy heart, and knowledge please thy soul:
#### 11 | Counsel shall keep thee, and prudence shall preserve thee,
#### 12 | That thou mayst be delivered from the evil way, and from the man that speaketh perverse things:
#### 13 | Who leave the right way, and walk by dark ways:
#### 14 | Who are glad when they have done evil, and rejoice in most wicked things:
#### 15 | Whose ways are perverse, and their steps infamous.
#### 16 | That thou mayst be delivered from the strange women, and from the stranger, who softeneth her words:
#### 17 | And forsaketh the guide of her youth,
#### 18 | And hath forgotten the covenant of her God: for her house inclineth unto death, and her paths to hell.
#### 19 | None that go in unto her shall return again, neither shall they take hold of the paths of life,
#### 20 | That thou mayst walk in a good way: and mayst keep the paths of the just.
#### 21 | For they that are upright shall dwell in the earth, and the simple shall continue in it.
#### 22 | But the wicked shall be destroyed from the earth: and they that do unjustly shall be taken away from it.

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