Proverbs 2

1 Proverbs 2:1 My son, if you will receive my words And treasure my commandments within you,

2 Proverbs 2:2 Make your ear attentive to wisdom, Incline your heart to understanding;

3 Proverbs 2:3 For if you cry for discernment, Lift your voice for understanding;

4 Proverbs 2:4 If you seek her as silver And search for her as for hidden treasures;

5 Proverbs 2:5 Then you will discern the fear of the LORD And discover the knowledge of God.

6 Proverbs 2:6 For the LORD gives wisdom; From His mouth come knowledge and understanding.

7 Proverbs 2:7 He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,

8 Proverbs 2:8 Guarding the paths of justice, And He preserves the way of His godly ones.

9 Proverbs 2:9 Then you will discern righteousness and justice And equity and every good course.

10 Proverbs 2:10 For wisdom will enter your heart And knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;

11 Proverbs 2:11 Discretion will guard you, Understanding will watch over you,

12 Proverbs 2:12 To deliver you from the way of evil, From the man who speaks perverse things;

13 Proverbs 2:13 From those who leave the paths of uprightness To walk in the ways of darkness;

14 Proverbs 2:14 Who delight in doing evil And rejoice in the perversity of evil;

15 Proverbs 2:15 Whose paths are crooked, And who are devious in their ways;

16 Proverbs 2:16 To deliver you from the strange woman, From the adulteress who flatters with her words;

17 Proverbs 2:17 That leaves the companion of her youth And forgets the covenant of her God;

18 Proverbs 2:18 For her house sinks down to death And her tracks lead to the dead;

19 Proverbs 2:19 None who go to her return again, Nor do they reach the paths of life.

20 Proverbs 2:20 So you will walk in the way of good men And keep to the paths of the righteous.

21 Proverbs 2:21 For the upright will live in the land And the blameless will remain in it;

22 Proverbs 2:22 But the wicked will be cut off from the land And the treacherous will be uprooted from it.