Proverbs 2
1 My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;
My son, if thou dost accept my sayings, And my commands dost lay up with thee,
2 So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, [and] apply thine heart to understanding;
To cause thine ear to attend to wisdom, Thou inclinest thy heart to understanding,
3 Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, [and] liftest up thy voice for understanding;
For, if for intelligence thou callest, For understanding givest forth thy voice,
4 If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as [for] hid treasures;
If thou dost seek her as silver, And as hid treasures searchest for her,
5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.
Then understandest thou fear of Jehovah, And knowledge of God thou findest.
6 For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth [cometh] knowledge and understanding.
For Jehovah giveth wisdom, From His mouth knowledge and understanding.
7 He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: [he is] a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
Even to lay up for the upright substance, A shield for those walking uprightly.
8 He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.
To keep the paths of judgment, And the way of His saints He preserveth.
9 Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; [yea], every good path.
Then understandest thou righteousness, And judgment, and uprightness — every good path.
10 When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;
For wisdom cometh into thy heart, And knowledge to thy soul is pleasant,
11 Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:
Thoughtfulness doth watch over thee, Understanding doth keep thee,
12 To deliver thee from the way of the evil [man], from the man that speaketh froward things;
To deliver thee from an evil way, From any speaking froward things,
13 Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
Who are forsaking paths of uprightness, To walk in ways of darkness,
14 Who rejoice to do evil, [and] delight in the frowardness of the wicked;
Who are rejoicing to do evil, They delight in frowardness of the wicked,
15 Whose ways [are] crooked, and [they] froward in their paths:
Whose paths [are] crooked, Yea, they are perverted in their ways.
16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, [even] from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words;
To deliver thee from the strange woman, From the stranger who hath made smooth her sayings,
17 Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
Who is forsaking the guide of her youth, And the covenant of her God hath forgotten.
18 For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
For her house hath inclined unto death, And unto Rephaim her paths.
19 None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
None going in unto her turn back, Nor do they reach the paths of life.
20 That thou mayest walk in the way of good [men], and keep the paths of the righteous.
That thou dost go in the way of the good, And the paths of the righteous dost keep.
21 For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.
For the upright do inhabit the earth, And the perfect are left in it,
22 But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
And the wicked from the earth are cut off, And treacherous dealers plucked out of it!
