The Book of Proverbs 2 |
The World English Online Bible (WLD) |
Proverbs 2:1 | My son, if you will receive my words, And store up my commandments within you; |
Proverbs 2:2 | So as to turn your ear to wisdom, And apply your heart to understanding; |
Proverbs 2:3 | Yes, if you call out for discernment, And lift up your voice for understanding; |
Proverbs 2:4 | If you seek her as silver, And search for her as for hidden treasures: |
Proverbs 2:5 | Then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, And find the knowledge of God. |
Proverbs 2:6 | For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding. |
Proverbs 2:7 | He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity; |
Proverbs 2:8 | That he may guard the paths of justice, And preserve the way of his saints. |
Proverbs 2:9 | Then you will understand righteousness and justice, Equity and every good path. |
Proverbs 2:10 | For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul. |
Proverbs 2:11 | Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you, |
Proverbs 2:12 | To deliver you from the way of evil, From the men who speak perverse things; |
Proverbs 2:13 | Who forsake the paths of uprightness, To walk in the ways of darkness; |
Proverbs 2:14 | Who rejoice to do evil, And delight in the perverseness of evil; |
Proverbs 2:15 | Who are crooked in their ways, And wayward in their paths: |
Proverbs 2:16 | To deliver you from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner who flatters with her words; |
Proverbs 2:17 | Who forsakes the friend of her youth, And forgets the covenant of her God: |
Proverbs 2:18 | For her house leads down to death, Her paths to the dead. |
Proverbs 2:19 | None who go to her return again, Neither do they attain to the paths of life: |
Proverbs 2:20 | That you may walk in the way of good men, And keep the paths of the righteous. |
Proverbs 2:21 | For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it. |
Proverbs 2:22 | But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it. |