LITV - Proverbs - 2

2:1  My son, if you will receive My words, and treasure up My commandments with you,

2:2  so that you attend to wisdom, you shall extend your heart to understanding.

2:3  For if you cry for discernment, lifting up your voice for understanding;

2:4  if you seek her as silver, and search for her as hidden treasures,

2:5  then you shall understand the fear of Jehovah and find knowledge of God.

2:6  For Jehovah gives wisdom; out of His mouth are knowledge and understanding.

2:7  He lays up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to the ones who walk in integrity,

2:8  to guard the paths of judgment, and He protects the way of His saints.

2:9  Then you shall understand righteousness and judgment and honesty, yea , every good path.

2:10  When wisdom enters into your heart, and knowledge is pleasing to your soul,

2:11  discretion shall keep you, understanding shall watch over you;

2:12  to deliver you from the evil way, from the man who speaks perverse things;

2:13  those who leave the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,

2:14  who rejoice to do evil; they delight in the perversities of the wicked;

2:15  whose paths are crooked, who are devious in their tracks.

2:16  These will deliver you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words,

2:17  who forsakes the guide of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.

2:18  For her house leads down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits.

2:19  All going in to her do not return, nor do they reach the ways of life.

2:20  Then you may walk in the ways of the good and keep the ways of the righteous.

2:21  For the upright shall live in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.

2:22  But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.