Proverbs 2 Comparison: Douay-Rheims vs KJV with Apocrypha

Proverbs 2

¹My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and wilt hide my commandments with thee,

²That thy ear may hearken to wisdom: incline thy heart to know prudence.

³For if thou shalt call for wisdom, and incline thy heart to prudence:

⁴If thou shalt seek her as money, and shalt dig for her as for a treasure:

⁵Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and shalt find the knowledge of God:

⁶Because the Lord giveth wisdom: and out of his mouth cometh prudence and knowledge.

⁷He wilt keep the salvation of the righteous, and protect them that walk in simplicity,

⁸Keeping the paths of justice, and guarding the ways of saints.

⁹Then shalt thou understand justice, and judgment, and equity, and every good path.

¹⁰If wisdom shall enter into thy heart, and knowledge please thy soul:

¹¹Counsel shall keep thee, and prudence shall preserve thee,

¹²That thou mayst be delivered from the evil way, and from the man that speaketh perverse things:

¹³Who leave the right way, and walk by dark ways:

¹⁴Who are glad when they have done evil, and rejoice in the most wicked things:

¹⁵Whose ways are perverse, and their steps infamous.

¹⁶That thou mayst be delivered from the strange woman, and from the stranger, who softeneth her words;

¹⁷And forsaketh the guide of her youth,

¹⁸And hath forgotten the covenant of her God: for her house inclineth unto death, and her paths to hell.

¹⁹None that go in unto her, shall return again, neither shall they take hold of the paths of life.

²⁰That thou mayst walk in a good way: and mayst keep the paths of the just.

²¹For they that are upright, shall dwell in the earth; and the simple shall continue in it.

²²But the wicked shall be destroyed from the earth: and they that do unjustly, shall be taken away from it.

Proverbs 2

¹My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;

²So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;

³Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;

⁴If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;

⁵Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.

⁶For the Lord giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.

⁷He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.

⁸He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.

⁹Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.

¹⁰When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;

¹¹Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:

¹²To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;

¹³Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;

¹⁴Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;

¹⁵Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:

¹⁶To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;

¹⁷Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.

¹⁸For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.

¹⁹None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.

²⁰That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

²¹For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.

²²But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.