Proverbs 2
1 My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and wilt hide my commandments with thee,
My son, if you will receive my words, and hide my commandments with you;
2 That thy ear may hearken to wisdom: Incline thy heart to know prudence:
So that you incline your ear unto wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;
3 For if thou shalt call for wisdom, and incline thy heart to prudence:
Yea, if you cry after knowledge, and lift up your voice for understanding;
4 If thou shalt seek her as money, and shalt dig for her as for a treasure:
If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hid treasures;
5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and shalt find the knowledge of God.
Then shall you understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.
6 Because the Lord giveth wisdom: and out of his mouth cometh prudence and knowledge.
For the LORD gives wisdom: out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
7 He will keep the salvation of the righteous, and protect them that walk in simplicity.
He lays up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
8 Keeping the paths of justice, and guarding the ways of saints.
He keeps the paths of judgment, and perserves the way of his saints.
9 Then shalt thou understand justice, and judgment, and equity, and every good path.
Then shall you understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.
10 If wisdom shall enter into thy heart, and knowledge please thy soul:
When wisdom enters into your heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto your soul;
11 Counsel shall keep thee, and prudence shall preserve thee,
Discretion shall preserve you, understanding shall keep you:
12 That thou mayst be delivered from the evil way, and from the man that speaketh perverse things:
To deliver you from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaks perverse things;
13 Who leave the right way, and walk by dark ways:
Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
14 Who are glad when they have done evil, and rejoice in most wicked things:
Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of the wicked;
15 Whose ways are perverse, and their steps infamous.
Whose ways are crooked, and they perverse in their paths:
16 That thou mayst be delivered from the strange women, and from the stranger, who softeneth her words:
To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flatters with her words;
17 And forsaketh the guide of her youth,
Which forsakes the guide of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God.
18 And hath forgotten the covenant of her God: for her house inclineth unto death, and her paths to hell. (questioned)
For her house inclines unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
19 None that go in unto her shall return again, neither shall they take hold of the paths of life,
None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
20 That thou mayst walk in a good way: and mayst keep the paths of the just.
That you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.
21 For they that are upright shall dwell in the earth, and the simple shall continue in it.
For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain 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 shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
