Proverbs - Chapter 2 | King James Version (KJV)

  • 1. My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;
  • 2. So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, {cf15I and} apply thine heart to understanding;
  • 3. Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, {cf15I and} liftest up thy voice for understanding;
  • 4. If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as {cf15I for} hid treasures;
  • 5. Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.
  • 6. For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth {cf15I cometh} knowledge and understanding.
  • 7. He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: {cf15I he is} a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
  • 8. He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.
  • 9. Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; {cf15I yea}, every good path.
  • 10. When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;
  • 11. Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:
  • 12. To deliver thee from the way of the evil {cf15I man}, from the man that speaketh froward things;
  • 13. Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
  • 14. Who rejoice to do evil, {cf15I and} delight in the frowardness of the wicked;
  • 15. Whose ways {cf15I are} crooked, and {cf15I they} froward in their paths:
  • 16. To deliver thee from the strange woman, {cf15I even} from the stranger {cf15I which} flattereth with her words;
  • 17. Which forsaketh the guide 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 take they hold of the paths of life.
  • 20. That thou mayest walk in the way of good {cf15I 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 earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
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