Proverbs - Chapter 2 | American Standard Version

  • 1. My son, if thou wilt receive my words, And lay up my commandments with thee;
  • 2. So as to incline thine ear unto wisdom, And apply thy heart to understanding;
  • 3. Yea, if thou cry after discernment, And lift up thy voice for understanding;
  • 4. If thou seek her as silver, And search for her as for hid treasures:
  • 5. Then shalt thou understand the fear of Jehovah, And find the knowledge of God.
  • 6. For Jehovah giveth wisdom; Out of his mouth {cf15i cometh} knowledge and understanding:
  • 7. He layeth up sound wisdom for the upright; {cf15i He is} a shield to them that walk in integrity;
  • 8. That he may guard the paths of justice, And preserve the way of his saints.
  • 9. Then shalt thou understand righteousness and justice, And equity, {cf15i yea}, every good path.
  • 10. For wisdom shall enter into thy heart, And knowledge shall be pleasant unto thy soul;
  • 11. Discretion shall watch over thee; Understanding shall keep thee:
  • 12. To deliver thee from the way of evil, From the men that speak perverse things;
  • 13. Who forsake the paths of uprightness, To walk in the ways of darkness;
  • 14. Who rejoice to do evil, And delight in the perverseness of evil;
  • 15. Who are crooked in their ways, And wayward in their paths:
  • 16. To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words;
  • 17. That forsaketh the friend of her youth, And forgetteth the covenant of her God:
  • 18. For her house inclineth unto death, And her paths unto the dead;
  • 19. None that go unto her return again, Neither do they attain unto the paths of life:
  • 20. That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, And keep the paths of the righteous.
  • 21. For the upright shall dwell in the land, And the perfect shall remain in it.
  • 22. But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, And the treacherous shall be rooted out of it.
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