AB - Proverbs - 2

2:1  My son, if you will receive the utterance of my commandment, and hide it within you;

2:2  your ear shall hearken to wisdom; you shall also apply your heart to understanding, and shall apply it to the instruction of your son.

2:3  For if you shall call to wisdom, and utter your voice for understanding;

2:4  and if you shall seek it as silver, and search diligently for it as for treasures;

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

2:6  For the Lord gives wisdom, and from His presence come knowledge and understanding,

2:7  and He treasures up salvation for them that walk uprightly: He will protect their way;

2:8  that He may guard the righteous ways: and He will preserve the way of them that fear Him.

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

2:10  For if wisdom shall come into your understanding, and discernment shall seem pleasing to your soul,

2:11  then good counsel shall guard you, and holy understanding shall keep you;

2:12  to deliver you from the evil way, and from the man that speaks nothing faithfully.

2:13  Alas for those who forsake right paths, to walk in ways of darkness;

2:14  who rejoice in evils, and delight in wicked perverseness;

2:15  whose paths are crooked, and their courses winding;

2:16  to remove you far from the straight way, and to estrange you from a righteous purpose. My son, let not evil counsel overtake you,

2:17  of her who has forsaken the instruction of her youth, and has forgotten the covenant of God.

2:18  For she has fixed her house near death, and guided her wheels near Hades with the giants.

2:19  None that go by her shall return, neither shall they take hold of right paths, for they have not apprehended of the years of life.

2:20  For had they gone in good paths, they would have easily found the paths of righteousness.

2:21  For the upright shall dwell in the earth, and the holy shall be left behind in it.

2:22  The paths of the ungodly shall perish out of the earth, and transgressors shall be driven away from it.