Proverbs

chapter 2


Chapters:


verse #1

My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you,


verse #2

so as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;


verse #3

yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;


verse #4

if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures;


verse #5

then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and find the knowledge of God.


verse #6

For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.


verse #7

He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,


verse #8

that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his saints.


verse #9

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


verse #10

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


verse #11

Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,


verse #12

to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things,


verse #13

who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness,


verse #14

who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil,


verse #15

who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths,


verse #16

to deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words,


verse #17

who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God;


verse #18

for her house leads down to death, her paths to the departed spirits.


verse #19

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


verse #20

Therefore walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.


verse #21

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


verse #22

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

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