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The Proverbs

Chapter 2

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Pr 2:1My son, if thou wilt receive my words, And lay up my commandments with thee;
Pr 2:2So as to incline thine ear unto wisdom, And apply thy heart to understanding;
Pr 2:3Yea, if thou cry after discernment, And lift up thy voice for understanding;
Pr 2:4If thou seek her as silver, And search for her as for hid treasures:
Pr 2:5Then shalt thou understand the fear of Jehovah, And find the knowledge of God.
Pr 2:6For Jehovah giveth wisdom; Out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding:
Pr 2:7He layeth up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to them that walk in integrity;
Pr 2:8That he may guard the paths of justice, And preserve the way of his saints.
Pr 2:9Then shalt thou understand righteousness and justice, And equity, yea, every good path.
Pr 2:10For wisdom shall enter into thy heart, And knowledge shall be pleasant unto thy soul;
Pr 2:11Discretion shall watch over thee; Understanding shall keep thee:
Pr 2:12To deliver thee from the way of evil, From the men that speak perverse things;
Pr 2:13Who forsake the paths of uprightness, To walk in the ways of darkness;
Pr 2:14Who rejoice to do evil, And delight in the perverseness of evil;
Pr 2:15Who are crooked in their ways, And wayward in their paths:
Pr 2:16To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words;
Pr 2:17That forsaketh the friend of her youth, And forgetteth the covenant of her God:
Pr 2:18For her house inclineth unto death, And her paths unto the dead;
Pr 2:19None that go unto her return again, Neither do they attain unto the paths of life:
Pr 2:20That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, And keep the paths of the righteous.
Pr 2:21For the upright shall dwell in the land, And the perfect shall remain in it.
Pr 2:22But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, And the treacherous shall be rooted out of it.