Proverbs 2

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

2So that thou make thine ear attend unto wisdom, And thy heart incline to discernment;

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

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

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

6For the LORD giveth wisdom, Out of His mouth cometh knowledge and discernment;

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 godly ones. .

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, Discernment shall guard thee;

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

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

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

15Who are crooked in their ways, And perverse in their paths;

16To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the alien woman that maketh smooth her words;

17That forsaketh the lord of her youth, And forgetteth the covenant of her God.

18For her house sinketh down unto death, And her paths unto the shades;

19None that go unto her return, 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 whole-hearted shall remain in it.

22But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, And the faithless shall be plucked up out of it.