Proverbs 2

¹ My son, if you receive my words
and treasure up my commandments with you,

²making your ear attentive to wisdom
and inclining your heart to understanding;

³yes, if you call out for insight
and raise your voice for understanding,

⁴if you seek it like silver
and search for it as for hidden treasures,

⁵then you will understand the fear of the Lord
and find the knowledge of God.

⁶For the Lord gives wisdom;
from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;

⁷he stores up sound wisdom for the upright;
he is a shield to those who walk in integrity,

⁸guarding the paths of justice
and watching over the way of his saints.

⁹ Then you will understand righteousness and justice
and equity, every good path;

¹⁰for wisdom will come into your heart,
and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;

¹¹ discretion will watch over you,
understanding will guard you,

¹²delivering you from the way of evil,
from men of perverted speech,

¹³who forsake the paths of uprightness
to walk in the ways of darkness,

¹⁴who rejoice in doing evil
and delight in the perverseness of evil,

¹⁵men whose paths are crooked,
and who are devious in their ways.

¹⁶So you will be delivered from the forbidden woman,
from the adulteress with her smooth words,

¹⁷who forsakes the companion of her youth
and forgets the covenant of her God;

¹⁸ for her house sinks down to death,
and her paths to the departed;

¹⁹none who go to her come back,
nor do they regain the paths of life.

²⁰So you will walk in the way of the good
and keep to the paths of the righteous.

²¹For the upright will inhabit the land,
and those with integrity will remain in it,

²²but the wicked will be cut off from the land,
and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.

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