【Proverbs】Chapter 2 << Last Chapter Next Chapter >>

2:1 My son, if you receive my words and treasure my commands,

2:2 Turning your ear to wisdom, inclining your heart to understanding;

2:3 Yes, if you call to intelligence, and to understanding raise your voice;

2:4 If you seek her like silver, and like hidden treasures search her out:

2:5 Then will you understand the fear of the LORD; the knowledge of God you will find;

2:6 For the LORD gives wisdom, from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;

2:7 He has counsel in store for the upright, he is the shield of those who walk honestly,

2:8 Guarding the paths of justice, protecting the way of his pious ones.

2:9 Then you will understand rectitude and justice, honesty, every good path;

2:10 For wisdom will enter your heart, knowledge will please your soul,

2:11 Discretion will watch over you, understanding will guard you;

2:12 Saving you from the way of evil men, from men of perverse speech,

2:13 Who leave the straight paths to walk in the way of darkness,

2:14 Who delight in doing evil, rejoice in perversity;

2:15 Whose ways are crooked, and devious their paths;

2:16 Saving you from the wife of another, from the adulteress with her smooth words,

2:17 Who forsakes the companion of her youth and forgets the pact with her God;

2:18 For her path sinks down to death, and her footsteps lead to the shades;

2:19 None who enter thereon come back again, or gain the paths of life.

2:20 Thus you may walk in the way of good men, and keep to the paths of the just.

2:21 For the upright will dwell in the land, the honest will remain in it;

2:22 But the wicked will be cut off from the land, the faithless will be rooted out of it.

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