PROVERBS 2

1 My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and lay up my commandments with thee;⋮

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

3 Yea, if thou cry after discernment, and lift up thy voice for understanding;⋮

4 If thou seek her as silver, and search for her as for hid treasures;⋮

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

6 For the LORD giveth wisdom; out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding:⋮

7 He layeth up sound wisdom for the upright, he is a shield to them that walk in integrity;⋮

8 That he may guard the paths of judgment, and preserve the way of his saints.⋮

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

10 For wisdom shall enter into thine heart, and knowledge shall be pleasant unto thy soul;⋮

11 Discretion shall watch over thee, understanding shall keep thee:⋮

12 To deliver thee from the way of evil, from the men that speak froward things;⋮

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

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

15 Who are crooked in their ways, and perverse in their paths:⋮

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

17 Which forsaketh the friend of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God:⋮

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

19 None that go unto her return again, neither do they attain unto the paths of life:⋮

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

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

22 But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, and they that deal treacherously shall be rooted out of it.⋮