2Proverbs 2

1My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;Select Proverbs 2:1

2So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;Select Proverbs 2:2

3Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;Select Proverbs 2:3

4If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;Select Proverbs 2:4

5Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.Select Proverbs 2:5

6For the Lord giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.Select Proverbs 2:6

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

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

9Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.Select Proverbs 2:9

10When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;Select Proverbs 2:10

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

12To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward 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 froward in their paths:Select Proverbs 2:15

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

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

18For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.Select Proverbs 2:18

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

20That thou mayest 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