Geneva1599 - Proverbs - 2

2:1  My sonne, if thou wilt receiue my wordes, and hide my commandements within thee,

2:2  And cause thine eares to hearken vnto wisdome, and encline thine heart to vnderstanding,

2:3  (For if thou callest after knowledge, and cryest for vnderstanding:

2:4  If thou seekest her as siluer, and searchest for her as for treasures,

2:5  Then shalt thou vnderstand the feare of the Lord, and finde the knowledge of God.

2:6  For the Lord giueth wisdome, out of his mouth commeth knowledge and vnderstanding.

2:7  He preserueth the state of the righteous: he is a shielde to them that walke vprightly,

2:8  That they may keepe the wayes of iudgement: and he preserueth the way of his Saintes)

2:9  Then shalt thou vnderstand righteousnes, and iudgement, and equitie, and euery good path.

2:10  When wisdome entreth into thine heart, and knowledge deliteth thy soule,

2:11  Then shall counsell preserue thee, and vnderstanding shall keepe thee,

2:12  And deliuer thee from the euill way, and from the man that speaketh froward things,

2:13  And from them that leaue the wayes of righteousnes to walke in the wayes of darkenes:

2:14  Which reioyce in doing euill, and delite in the frowardnesse of the wicked,

2:15  Whose wayes are crooked and they are lewde in their paths.

2:16  And it shall deliuer thee from the strange woman, euen from the stranger, which flattereth with her wordes.

2:17  Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the couenant of her God.

2:18  Surely her house tendeth to death, and her paths vnto the dead.

2:19  All they that goe vnto her, returne not againe, neither take they holde of the wayes of life.

2:20  Therefore walke thou in the way of good men, and keepe the wayes of the righteous.

2:21  For the iust shall dwell in the land, and the vpright men shall remaine in it.

2:22  But the wicked shalbe cut off from ye earth, and the transgressours shalbe rooted out of it.