Proverbs 2

1 My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you;

My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;

2 So as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;

So that thou incline thy ear to wisdom, [and] apply thy heart to understanding;

3 Yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;

Yes, if thou criest after knowledge, [and] liftest up thy voice for understanding;

4 If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures:

If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as [for] hid treasures;

5 then you will understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.

Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.

6 For the LORD gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth [cometh] knowledge and understanding.

7 He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity;

He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: [he is] a buckler to them that walk uprightly.

8 that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his faithful ones.

He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.

9 Then you will understand righteousness and justice, equity and every good path.

Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; [and] every good path.

10 For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.

When wisdom entereth into thy heart, and knowledge is pleasant to thy soul;

11 Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,

Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:

12 to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things;

To deliver thee from the way of the evil [man], from the man that speaketh froward things;

13 who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;

Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;

14 who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil;

Who rejoice to do evil, [and] delight in the frowardness of the wicked;

15 who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths:

Whose ways [are] crooked, and [they] froward in their paths:

16 To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;

To deliver thee from the strange woman, [even] from the stranger [who] flattereth with her words;

17 who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God:

Who forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.

18 for her house leads down to death, her paths to the dead.

For her house inclineth to death, and her paths to the dead.

19 None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life:

None that go to her return again, neither do they take hold of the paths of life.

20 that you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

That thou mayest walk in the way of good [men], and keep the paths of the righteous.

21 For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it.

For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.

22 But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be uprooted out of it.

But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.