Proverbs 2
1 My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and wilt hide my commandments with thee,
My sonne, if thou wilt receiue my wordes, and hide my commandements within thee,
2 That thy ear may hearken to wisdom: Incline thy heart to know prudence:
And cause thine eares to hearken vnto wisdome, and encline thine heart to vnderstanding,
3 For if thou shalt call for wisdom, and incline thy heart to prudence:
(For if thou callest after knowledge, and cryest for vnderstanding:
4 If thou shalt seek her as money, and shalt dig for her as for a treasure:
If thou seekest her as siluer, and searchest for her as for treasures,
5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and shalt find the knowledge of God.
Then shalt thou vnderstand the feare of the Lord, and finde the knowledge of God.
6 Because the Lord giveth wisdom: and out of his mouth cometh prudence and knowledge.
For the Lord giueth wisdome, out of his mouth commeth knowledge and vnderstanding.
7 He will keep the salvation of the righteous, and protect them that walk in simplicity.
He preserueth the state of the righteous: he is a shielde to them that walke vprightly,
8 Keeping the paths of justice, and guarding the ways of saints.
That they may keepe the wayes of iudgement: and he preserueth the way of his Saintes)
9 Then shalt thou understand justice, and judgment, and equity, and every good path.
Then shalt thou vnderstand righteousnes, and iudgement, and equitie, and euery good path.
10 If wisdom shall enter into thy heart, and knowledge please thy soul:
When wisdome entreth into thine heart, and knowledge deliteth thy soule,
11 Counsel shall keep thee, and prudence shall preserve thee,
Then shall counsell preserue thee, and vnderstanding shall keepe thee,
12 That thou mayst be delivered from the evil way, and from the man that speaketh perverse things:
And deliuer thee from the euill way, and from the man that speaketh froward things,
13 Who leave the right way, and walk by dark ways:
And from them that leaue the wayes of righteousnes to walke in the wayes of darkenes:
14 Who are glad when they have done evil, and rejoice in most wicked things:
Which reioyce in doing euill, and delite in the frowardnesse of the wicked,
15 Whose ways are perverse, and their steps infamous.
Whose wayes are crooked and they are lewde in their paths.
16 That thou mayst be delivered from the strange women, and from the stranger, who softeneth her words:
And it shall deliuer thee from the strange woman, euen from the stranger, which flattereth with her wordes.
17 And forsaketh the guide of her youth,
Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the couenant of her God.
18 And hath forgotten the covenant of her God: for her house inclineth unto death, and her paths to hell. (questioned)
Surely her house tendeth to death, and her paths vnto the dead.
19 None that go in unto her shall return again, neither shall they take hold of the paths of life,
All they that goe vnto her, returne not againe, neither take they holde of the wayes of life.
20 That thou mayst walk in a good way: and mayst keep the paths of the just.
Therefore walke thou in the way of good men, and keepe the wayes of the righteous.
21 For they that are upright shall dwell in the earth, and the simple shall continue in it.
For the iust shall dwell in the land, and the vpright men shall remaine in it.
22 But the wicked shall be destroyed from the earth: and they that do unjustly shall be taken away from it.
But the wicked shalbe cut off from ye earth, and the transgressours shalbe rooted out of it.
