Proverbs 2

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1 My son, if you will receive my words, and hide my commandments with you;
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2 So that you incline your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;
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3 Yes, if you cry after knowledge, and lift up your voice for understanding;
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4 If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hid treasures;
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5 Then shall you understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.
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6 For the LORD gives wisdom: out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
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7 He lays up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
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8 He keeps the paths of judgment, and preserves the way of his saints.
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9 Then shall you understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yes, every good path.
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10 When wisdom enters into your heart, and knowledge is pleasant to your soul;
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11 Discretion shall preserve you, understanding shall keep you:
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12 To deliver you from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaks fraudulent things;
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13 Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
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14 Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;
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15 Whose ways are crooked, and they fraudulent in their paths:
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16 To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flatters with her words;
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17 Which forsakes the guide of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God.
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18 For her house inclines to death, and her paths to the dead.
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19 None that go to her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
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20 That you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.
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21 For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.
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22 But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
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