Proverbs 2:1-22
[sup]1[/sup] My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with the; [sup]2[/sup] So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; [sup]3[/sup] Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding; [sup]4[/sup]If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; [sup]5[/sup] Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God. [sup]6[/sup] For the Lord giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding. [sup]7[/sup] He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly. [sup]8[/sup] He keepeth the paths of judgement, and preserveth the way of his saints. [sup]9[/sup] Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path. [sup]10[/sup] When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; [sup]11[/sup] Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee: [sup]12[/sup] To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things; [sup]13[/sup]Who leave the paths of uprighteness, to walk in the ways of darkness; [sup]14[/sup] Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked; [sup]15[/sup] Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths: [sup]16[/sup] To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words; [sup]17[/sup] Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God. [sup]18[/sup] For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the d ead. [sup]19[/sup] None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life. [sup]20[/sup] That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous. [sup]21[/sup] For the upright shall swell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it. [sup]22[/sup]But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
