Proverbs Chapter 2

2 : 1 My son, if you will receive my words, and hide my commandments with you;

2 : 2 So that you incline your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;

2 : 3 Yes, if you cry after knowledge, and lift up your voice for understanding;

2 : 4 If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hid treasures;

2 : 5 Then shall you understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.

2 : 6 For the LORD gives wisdom: out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

2 : 7 He lays up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.

2 : 8 He keeps the paths of judgment, and preserves the way of his saints.

2 : 9 Then shall you understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yes, every good path.

2 : 10 When wisdom enters into your heart, and knowledge is pleasant to your soul;

2 : 11 Discretion shall preserve you, understanding shall keep you:

2 : 12 To deliver you from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaks fraudulent 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 fraudulent in their paths:

2 : 16 To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flatters with her words;

2 : 17 Which forsakes the guide 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 that go to her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.

2 : 20 That you 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 earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.