2Proverbs 2

1My son, if you will receive my words, and hide my commandments with you;Select Proverbs 2:1

2So that you incline your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;Select Proverbs 2:2

3Yes, if you cry after knowledge, and lift up your voice for understanding;Select Proverbs 2:3

4If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hid treasures;Select Proverbs 2:4

5Then shall you understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.Select Proverbs 2:5

6For the LORD gives wisdom: out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.Select Proverbs 2:6

7He lays up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.Select Proverbs 2:7

8He keeps the paths of judgment, and preserves the way of his saints.Select Proverbs 2:8

9Then shall you understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yes, every good path. ¶Select Proverbs 2:9

10When wisdom enters into your heart, and knowledge is pleasant to your soul;Select Proverbs 2:10

11Discretion shall preserve you, understanding shall keep you:Select Proverbs 2:11

12To deliver you from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaks fraudulent things;Select Proverbs 2:12

13Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;Select Proverbs 2:13

14Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;Select Proverbs 2:14

15Whose ways are crooked, and they fraudulent in their paths:Select Proverbs 2:15

16To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flatters with her words;Select Proverbs 2:16

17Which forsakes the guide of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God.Select Proverbs 2:17

18For her house inclines to death, and her paths to the dead.Select Proverbs 2:18

19None that go to her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.Select Proverbs 2:19

20That you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.Select Proverbs 2:20

21For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.Select Proverbs 2:21

22But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.Select Proverbs 2:22