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 is' a 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.●