Proverbs Chapter 2

2 : 1 My son, if thou will receive my words, and lay up my commandments with thee,

2 : 2 so as to incline thine ear to wisdom, and apply thy heart to understanding,

2 : 3 yea, if thou cry after discernment, and lift up thy voice for understanding,

2 : 4 if thou seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures,

2 : 5 then thou shall understand the fear of Jehovah, and find the knowledge of God.

2 : 6 For Jehovah gives wisdom. Out of his mouth is knowledge and understanding.

2 : 7 He lays up sound wisdom for the upright, a shield to those who walk in integrity,

2 : 8 that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his sanctified.

2 : 9 Then thou shall understand righteousness and justice and equity, yea, every good path.

2 : 10 For wisdom shall enter into thy heart, and knowledge shall be pleasant to thy soul,

2 : 11 discretion shall watch over thee, understanding shall keep thee,

2 : 12 to deliver thee from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things,

2 : 13 who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,

2 : 14 who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil,

2 : 15 who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths,

2 : 16 to deliver thee from the interloping woman, even from the stranger who flatters with her words,

2 : 17 who forsakes the companion of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God

2 : 18 (for her house inclines to death, and her paths to the dead;

2 : 19 none who go to her return again, nor do they attain to the paths of life),

2 : 20 that thou may 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 land, and the treacherous shall be rooted out of it.