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Proverbs 2

¹My son, if thou wilt receive my words, And lay up my commandments with thee;

²So as to incline thine ear unto wisdom, And apply thy heart to understanding;

³Yea, if thou cry after discernment, And lift up thy voice for understanding;

⁴If thou seek her as silver, And search for her as for hid treasures:

⁵Then shalt thou understand the fear of Jehovah, And find the knowledge of God.

⁶For Jehovah giveth wisdom; Out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding:

⁷He layeth up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to them that walk in integrity;

⁸That he may guard the paths of justice, And preserve the way of his saints.

⁹Then shalt thou understand righteousness and justice, And equity, yea, every good path.

¹⁰For wisdom shall enter into thy heart, And knowledge shall be pleasant unto thy soul;

¹¹Discretion shall watch over thee; Understanding shall keep thee:

¹²To deliver thee from the way of evil, From the men that speak perverse things;

¹³Who forsake the paths of uprightness, To walk in the ways of darkness;

¹⁴Who rejoice to do evil, And delight in the perverseness of evil;

¹⁵Who are crooked in their ways, And wayward in their paths:

¹⁶To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words;

¹⁷That forsaketh the friend of her youth, And forgetteth the covenant of her God:

¹⁸For her house inclineth unto death, And her paths unto the dead;

¹⁹None that go unto her return again, Neither do they attain unto the paths of life:

²⁰That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, And keep the paths of the righteous.

²¹For the upright shall dwell in the land, And the perfect shall remain in it.

²²But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, And the treacherous shall be rooted out of it.