Proverbs 2

¹My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and lay up my commandments with thee; ²So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; ³Yea, if thou cry after discernment, and lift up thy voice for understanding; ⁴If thou seek her as silver, and search for her as for hid treasures; ⁵Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God. ⁶For the LORD giveth wisdom; out of his mouth comethknowledge and understanding: ⁷He layeth up sound wisdom for the upright, he isa shield to them that walk in integrity; ⁸That he may guard the paths of judgment, and preserve the way of his saints. ⁹Then shalt thou understand righteousness and judgment, and equity, yea, every good path. ¹⁰For wisdom shall enter into thine heart, and knowledge shall be pleasant unto thy soul; ¹¹Discretion shall watch over thee, understanding shall keep thee: ¹²To deliver thee from the way of evil, from the men that speak froward things; ¹³Who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness; ¹⁴Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of evil; ¹⁵Who are crooked in their ways, and perverse in their paths: ¹⁶To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words; ¹⁷Which forsaketh the friend of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God: ¹⁸For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead: ¹⁹None that go unto her return again, neither do they attain unto the paths of life: ²⁰That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous. ²¹For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it. ²²But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, and they that deal treacherously shall be rooted out of it.