Prov. 2
:1
2:1
aMy son, if you receive my words
And treasure up my commandments within you,
Prov. 2
:2
2:2
Making your ear attentive to wisdom
And inclining your heart to understanding;
Prov. 2
:3
2:3
Indeed, if you cry out for discernment
And lift up your voice for understanding;
Prov. 2
:4
2:4
If you seek her like silver
And search for her like hidden treasures,
Prov. 2
:5
2:5
Then you will understand the fear of Jehovah
And find the knowledge of God.
Prov. 2
:6
2:6
For Jehovah
agives wisdom;
From His mouth
come knowledge and understanding;
Prov. 2
:7
2:7
He stores up sound wisdom for the upright;
He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
Prov. 2
:8
2:8
Guarding the paths of justice
And keeping the way of His faithful ones.
Prov. 2
:9
2:9
Then you will understand righteousness and justice
And equity,
indeed, every good path.
Prov. 2
:10
2:10
For wisdom will enter your heart,
And knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;
Prov. 2
:11
2:11
Discretion will watch over you;
Understanding will keep you:
Prov. 2
:12
2:12
To deliver you from the way of evil,
From the man who speaks perverse things,
Prov. 2
:13
2:13
From those who forsake the paths of uprightness
To walk in the ways of darkness,
Prov. 2
:14
2:14
Who rejoice in doing evil
And delight in the perverseness of evil,
Prov. 2
:15
2:15
Whose paths are crooked,
And who are devious in their ways;
Prov. 2
:16
2:16
To deliver you from the strange woman,
From the adulteress who flatters with her words,
Prov. 2
:17
2:17
Who forsakes the companion of her youth
And forgets the covenant of her God;
Prov. 2
:18
2:18
For her house sinks down to death,
And her paths
lead to the dead;
Prov. 2
:19
2:19
None who go to her
ever return,
Nor do they attain to the
apaths of life;
Prov. 2
:20
2:20
That you may walk in the way of good men
And keep the paths of the righteous;
Prov. 2
:21
2:21
For the upright will dwell in the
aland,
And the perfect will remain in it;
Prov. 2
:22
2:22
But the wicked will be cut off from the land,
And the treacherous will be uprooted from it.
