CPDV - Proverbs - 2

2:1  My son, if you would accept my words, and conceal my commandments within you,

2:2  so that your ears may listen to wisdom, then bend your heart in order to know prudence.

2:3  For if you would call upon wisdom and bend your heart to prudence,

2:4  if you will seek her like money, and dig for her as if for treasure,

2:5  then you will understand the fear of the Lord, and you will discover the knowledge of God.

2:6  For the Lord bestows wisdom, and out of his mouth, prudence and knowledge.

2:7  He will preserve the salvation of the righteous, and he will protect those who walk in simplicity:

2:8  serving the paths of justice, and guarding the ways of sanctity.

2:9  Then you shall understand justice and judgment, and equity, and every good path.

2:10  If wisdom is to enter into your heart, and if knowledge is to become pleasing to your soul,

2:11  then counsel must guard you, and prudence must serve you,

2:12  so that you may be rescued from the evil way, and from the man who speaks perversities,

2:13  from those who leave the straight path to walk in dark ways,

2:14  who rejoice when they have done evil, and who exult in the most wicked things.

2:15  Their ways are perverse, and their steps are infamous.

2:16  So may you be rescued from the foreign woman, and from the outsider, who softens her speech,

2:17  and who leaves behind the Guide of her youth,

2:18  and who has forgotten the covenant of her God. For her household inclines toward death, and her paths toward Hell.

2:19  All those who enter to her will not return again, nor will they take hold of the paths of life.

2:20  So may you walk in the good way, and keep to the difficult paths of the just.

2:21  For those who are upright shall live upon the earth, and the simple shall continue upon it.

2:22  Yet truly, the impious shall perish from the earth, and those who act unjustly shall be taken away from it.