Proverbs 2

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

² So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;

³ Yea, if thou cry after discernment, and lift up thy voice for understanding;

⁴ If thou seek her as silver, and search for her as for hid treasures;

⁵ Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.

⁶ For the LORD giveth wisdom; out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding:

⁷ He layeth up sound wisdom for the upright, he is a shield to them that walk in integrity;

⁸ That he may guard the paths of judgment, and preserve the way of his saints.

⁹ Then shalt thou understand righteousness and judgment, and equity, yea, every good path.

¹⁰ For wisdom shall enter into thine heart, and knowledge shall be pleasant unto thy soul;

¹¹ Discretion shall watch over thee, understanding shall keep thee:

¹² To deliver thee from the way of evil, from the men that speak froward things;

¹³ Who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;

¹⁴ Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of evil;

¹⁵ Who are crooked in their ways, and perverse in their paths:

¹⁶ To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;

¹⁷ Which forsaketh the friend of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God:

¹⁸ For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead:

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

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

²¹ For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.

²² But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, and they that deal treacherously shall be rooted out of it.