BBE - Proverbs - 2

2:1  My son, if you will take my words to your heart, storing up my laws in your mind;

2:2  So that your ear gives attention to wisdom, and your heart is turned to knowledge;

2:3  Truly, if you are crying out for good sense, and your request is for knowledge;

2:4  If you are looking for her as for silver, and searching for her as for stored-up wealth;

2:5  Then the fear of the Lord will be clear to you, and knowledge of God will be yours.

2:6  For the Lord gives wisdom; out of his mouth come knowledge and reason:

2:7  He has salvation stored up for the upright, he is a breastplate to those in whom there is no evil;

2:8  He keeps watch on the ways which are right, and takes care of those who have the fear of him.

2:9  Then you will have knowledge of righteousness and right acting, and upright behaviour, even of every good way.

2:10  For wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasing to your soul;

2:11  Wise purposes will be watching over you, and knowledge will keep you;

2:12  Giving you salvation from the evil man, from those whose words are false;

2:13  Who give up the way of righteousness, to go by dark roads;

2:14  Who take pleasure in wrongdoing, and have joy in the evil designs of the sinner;

2:15  Whose ways are not straight, and whose footsteps are turned to evil:

2:16  To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue;

2:17  Who is false to the husband of her early years, and does not keep the agreement of her God in mind:

2:18  For her house is on the way down to death; her footsteps go down to the shades:

2:19  Those who go to her do not come back again; their feet do not keep in the ways of life:

2:20  So that you may go in the way of good men, and keep in the footsteps of the upright.

2:21  For the upright will be living in the land, and the good will have it for their heritage.

2:22  But sinners will be cut off from the land, and those whose acts are false will be uprooted.