Proverbs
2:1 My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with
thee;
2:2 So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to
understanding;
2:3 Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for
understanding;
2:4 If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid
treasures;
2:5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge
of God.
2:6 For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and
understanding.
2:7 He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them
that walk uprightly.
2:8 He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.
2:9 Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea,
every good path.
2:10 When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto
thy soul;
2:11 Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:
2:12 To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh
froward things;
2:13 Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
2:14 Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;
2:15 Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:
2:16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which
flattereth with her words;
2:17 Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of
her God.
2:18 For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
2:19 None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths
of life.
2:20 That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the
righteous.
2:21 For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in
it.
2:22 But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors
shall be rooted out of it.
