The Proverbs (WEB)

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

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

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

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

 ^2:5Then you will understand the fear of Yahweh,
      And find the knowledge of God.

 ^2:6For Yahweh gives wisdom.
      Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

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

 ^2:8That he may guard the paths of justice,
      And preserve the way of his saints.

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

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

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

 ^2:12To deliver you from the way of evil,
      From the men who speak perverse things;

 ^2:13Who forsake the paths of uprightness,
      To walk in the ways of darkness;

 ^2:14Who rejoice to do evil,
      And delight in the perverseness of evil;

 ^2:15Who are crooked in their ways,
      And wayward in their paths:

 ^2:16To deliver you from the strange woman,
      Even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;

 ^2:17Who forsakes the friend of her youth,
      And forgets the covenant of her God:

 ^2:18For her house leads down to death,
      Her paths to the dead.

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

 ^2:20That you may walk in the way of good men,
      And keep the paths of the righteous.

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

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

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