ASV - Proverbs - 2

2:1  My son, if thou wilt receive my words, And lay up my commandments with thee;

2:2  So as to incline thine ear unto wisdom, And apply thy heart to understanding;

2:3  Yea, if thou cry after discernment, And lift up thy voice for understanding;

2:4  If thou seek her as silver, And search for her as for hid treasures:

2:5  Then shalt thou understand the fear of Jehovah, And find the knowledge of God.

2:6  For Jehovah giveth wisdom; Out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding:

2:7  He layeth up sound wisdom for the upright; He isa shield to them that walk in integrity;

2:8  That he may guard the paths of justice, And preserve the way of his saints.

2:9  Then shalt thou understand righteousness and justice, And equity, yea, every good path.

2:10  For wisdom shall enter into thy heart, And knowledge shall be pleasant unto thy soul;

2:11  Discretion shall watch over thee; Understanding shall keep thee:

2:12  To deliver thee from the way of evil, From the men that speak perverse things;

2:13  Who forsake the paths of uprightness, To walk in the ways of darkness;

2:14  Who rejoice to do evil, And delight in the perverseness of evil;

2:15  Who are crooked in their ways, And wayward in their paths:

2:16  To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words;

2:17  That forsaketh the friend of her youth, And forgetteth the covenant of her God:

2:18  For her house inclineth unto death, And her paths unto the dead;

2:19  None that go unto her return again, Neither do they attain unto the paths of life:

2:20  That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, And keep the paths of the righteous.

2:21  For the upright shall dwell in the land, And the perfect shall remain in it.

2:22  But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, And the treacherous shall be rooted out of it.