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Proverbs 2

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

²So as to incline thine ear unto wisdom, And apply thy heart to understanding;

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

⁴If thou seek her as silver, And search for her as for hid treasures:

⁵Then shalt thou understand the fear of Jehovah, And find the knowledge of God.

⁶For Jehovah giveth wisdom; Out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding:

⁷He layeth up sound wisdom for the upright; He isa shield to them that walk in integrity;

⁸That he may guard the paths of justice, And preserve the way of his saints.

⁹Then shalt thou understand righteousness and justice, And equity, yea, every good path.

¹⁰For wisdom shall enter into thy heart, And knowledge shall be pleasant unto thy soul;

¹¹Discretion shall watch over thee; Understanding shall keep thee:

¹²To deliver thee from the way of evil, From the men that speak perverse things;

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

¹⁴Who rejoice to do evil, And delight in the perverseness of evil;

¹⁵Who are crooked in their ways, And wayward in their paths:

¹⁶To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words;

¹⁷That forsaketh the friend 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 do they attain unto 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 land, And the treacherous shall be rooted out of it.

Proverbs 2

¹My son, if you accept my words and hide my commandments within you,

²if you incline your ear to wisdom and direct your heart to understanding,

³if you truly call out to insight and lift your voice to understanding,

⁴if you seek it like silver and search it out like hidden treasure,

⁵then you will discern the fear of the LORD and discover the knowledge of God.

⁶For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.

⁷He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk with integrity,

⁸to guard the paths of justice and protect the way of His saints.

⁹Then you will discern righteousness and justice and equity—every good path.

¹⁰For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will delight your soul.

¹¹Discretion will watch over you, and understanding will guard you,

¹²to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perversity,

¹³from those who leave the straight paths to walk in the ways of darkness,

¹⁴from those who enjoy doing evil and rejoice in the twistedness of evil,

¹⁵whose paths are crooked and whose ways are devious.

¹⁶It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words

¹⁷who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.

¹⁸For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits.

¹⁹None who go to her return or negotiate the paths of life.

²⁰So you will follow in the ways of the good, and keep to the paths of the righteous.

²¹For the upright will inhabit the land, and the blameless will remain in it;

²²but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be uprooted.