Proverbs

Chapter 2

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¹My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;3 sermons²So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;2 sermons³Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;2 sermons⁴If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;2 sermons⁵Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.1 sermon⁶For the Lord giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.2 sermons⁷He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.1 sermon⁸He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.⁹Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.¹⁰When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;¹¹Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:¹²To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;¹³Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;¹⁴Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;¹⁵Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:¹⁶To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;¹⁷Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.¹⁸For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.¹⁹None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.²⁰That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.1 sermon²¹For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.²²But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.