Proverbs 2
1 My son, if thou dost accept my sayings, And my commands dost lay up with thee,
My sonne, if thou wilt receiue my wordes, and hide my commandements within thee,
2 To cause thine ear to attend to wisdom, Thou inclinest thy heart to understanding,
And cause thine eares to hearken vnto wisdome, and encline thine heart to vnderstanding,
3 For, if for intelligence thou callest, For understanding givest forth thy voice,
(For if thou callest after knowledge, and cryest for vnderstanding:
4 If thou dost seek her as silver, And as hid treasures searchest for her,
If thou seekest her as siluer, and searchest for her as for treasures,
5 Then understandest thou fear of Jehovah, And knowledge of God thou findest.
Then shalt thou vnderstand the feare of the Lord, and finde the knowledge of God.
6 For Jehovah giveth wisdom, From His mouth knowledge and understanding.
For the Lord giueth wisdome, out of his mouth commeth knowledge and vnderstanding.
7 Even to lay up for the upright substance, A shield for those walking uprightly.
He preserueth the state of the righteous: he is a shielde to them that walke vprightly,
8 To keep the paths of judgment, And the way of His saints He preserveth.
That they may keepe the wayes of iudgement: and he preserueth the way of his Saintes)
9 Then understandest thou righteousness, And judgment, and uprightness — every good path.
Then shalt thou vnderstand righteousnes, and iudgement, and equitie, and euery good path.
10 For wisdom cometh into thy heart, And knowledge to thy soul is pleasant,
When wisdome entreth into thine heart, and knowledge deliteth thy soule,
11 Thoughtfulness doth watch over thee, Understanding doth keep thee,
Then shall counsell preserue thee, and vnderstanding shall keepe thee,
12 To deliver thee from an evil way, From any speaking froward things,
And deliuer thee from the euill way, and from the man that speaketh froward things,
13 Who are forsaking paths of uprightness, To walk in ways of darkness,
And from them that leaue the wayes of righteousnes to walke in the wayes of darkenes:
14 Who are rejoicing to do evil, They delight in frowardness of the wicked,
Which reioyce in doing euill, and delite in the frowardnesse of the wicked,
15 Whose paths [are] crooked, Yea, they are perverted in their ways.
Whose wayes are crooked and they are lewde in their paths.
16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, From the stranger who hath made smooth her sayings,
And it shall deliuer thee from the strange woman, euen from the stranger, which flattereth with her wordes.
17 Who is forsaking the guide of her youth, And the covenant of her God hath forgotten.
Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the couenant of her God.
18 For her house hath inclined unto death, And unto Rephaim her paths.
Surely her house tendeth to death, and her paths vnto the dead.
19 None going in unto her turn back, Nor do they reach 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 dost go in the way of the good, And the paths of the righteous dost keep.
Therefore walke thou in the way of good men, and keepe the wayes of the righteous.
21 For the upright do inhabit the earth, And the perfect are left in it,
For the iust shall dwell in the land, and the vpright men shall remaine in it.
22 And the wicked from the earth are cut off, And treacherous dealers plucked out of it!
But the wicked shalbe cut off from ye earth, and the transgressours shalbe rooted out of it.
