Proverbs - Chapter 2 - King James Version
- My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;
- So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom,andapply thine heart to understanding;
- Yea, if thou criest after knowledge,andliftest up thy voice for understanding;
- If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her asforhid treasures;
- Then shalt thou understand the fear of theLORD, and find the knowledge of God.
- For theLORDgiveth wisdom: out of his mouthcomethknowledge and understanding.
- He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous:he isa buckler to them that walk uprightly.
- He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.
- Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity;yea, every good path.
- When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;
- Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:
- To deliver thee from the way of the evilman, from the man that speaketh froward things;
- Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
- Who rejoice to do evil,anddelight in the frowardness of the wicked;
- Whose waysarecrooked, andtheyfroward in their paths:
- To deliver thee from the strange woman,evenfrom the strangerwhichflattereth with her words;
- Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
- For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
- None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
- That thou mayest walk in the way of goodmen, and keep the paths of the righteous.
- For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.
- But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.