NHEBME - Proverbs - 2

2:1  My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you;

2:2  So as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;

2:3  Yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;

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

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

2:6  For the Lord gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

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

2:8  that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his holy ones.

2:9  Then you will understand righteousness and justice, equity and every good path.

2:10  For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.

2:11  Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,

2:12  to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who 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 you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;

2:17  who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God:

2:18  for her house leads down to death, her paths to the dead.

2:19  None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life:

2:20  that you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

2:21  For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it.

2:22  But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.