Proverbs - Chapter 2 | English Standard Version

  • 1. My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you,
  • 2. making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding;
  • 3. yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding,
  • 4. if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures,
  • 5. then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God.
  • 6. For the LORD gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;
  • 7. he stores up sound wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
  • 8. guarding 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;
  • 10. for wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;
  • 11. discretion will watch over you, understanding will guard you,
  • 12. delivering you from the way of evil, from men of perverted speech,
  • 13. who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,
  • 14. who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perverseness of evil,
  • 15. men whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways.
  • 16. So you will be delivered from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words,
  • 17. who 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;
  • 19. none who go to her come back, nor do they regain the paths of life.
  • 20. So you will walk in the way of the good and keep to the paths of the righteous.
  • 21. For the upright will inhabit the land, and those with integrity will remain in it,
  • 22. but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.
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