Proverbs Chapter 2 Back Next{2:1} My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you;
{2:2} So as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your
heart to understanding;
{2:3} Yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;
{2:4} If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures:
{2:5} then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and find the knowledge of
God.
{2:6} For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
{2:7} He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity;
{2:8} that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his saints.
{2:9} Then you will understand righteousness and justice, equity and every good path.
{2:10} For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
{2:11} Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,
{2:12} to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things;
{2:13} who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of
darkness;
{2:14} who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil;
{2:15} who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths:
{2:16} To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the
foreigner who flatters with her words;
{2:17} who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the
covenant of her God:
{2:18} for her house leads down to
death, her paths to the dead.
{2:19} None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life:
{2:20} that you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.
{2:21} For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it.
{2:22} But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.
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