Proverbs 2

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

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

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

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

(Proverbs 2:5) Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.

(Proverbs 2:6) For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.

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

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

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

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

(Proverbs 2:11) Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:

(Proverbs 2:12) To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;

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

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

(Proverbs 2:15) Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:

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

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

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

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

(Proverbs 2:20) That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

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

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