Proverbs 2

¹ My son, if you will receive the utterance of my commandment, and hide it within you;

² your ear shall hearken to wisdom; you shall also apply your heart to understanding, and shall apply it to the instruction of your son.

³ For if you shall call to wisdom, and utter your voice for understanding;

⁴ and if you shall seek it as silver, and search diligently for it as for treasures;

⁵ then shall you understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.

⁶ For the Lord gives wisdom, and from His presence come knowledge and understanding,

⁷ and He treasures up salvation for them that walk uprightly: He will protect their way;

⁸ that He may guard the righteous ways: and He will preserve the way of them that fear Him.

⁹ Then shall you understand righteousness and judgment, equity and every good path.

¹⁰ For if wisdom shall come into your understanding, and discernment shall seem pleasing to your soul,

¹¹ then good counsel shall guard you, and holy understanding shall keep you;

¹² to deliver you from the evil way, and from the man that speaks nothing faithfully.

¹³ Alas for those who forsake right paths, to walk in ways of darkness;

¹⁴ who rejoice in evils, and delight in wicked perverseness;

¹⁵ whose paths are crooked, and their courses winding;

¹⁶ to remove you far from the straight way, and to estrange you from a righteous purpose. My son, let not evil counsel overtake you,

¹⁷ of her who has forsaken the instruction of her youth, and has forgotten the covenant of God.

¹⁸ For she has fixed her house near death, and guided her wheels near Hades with the giants.

¹⁹ None that go by her shall return, neither shall they take hold of right paths, for they have not apprehended of the years of life.

²⁰ For had they gone in good paths, they would have easily found the paths of righteousness.

²¹ For the upright shall dwell in the earth, and the holy shall be left behind in it.

²² The paths of the ungodly shall perish out of the earth, and transgressors shall be driven away from it.

Proverbs 2

¹ My son, if you will receive the utterance of my commandment, and hide it within you;

² your ear shall hearken to wisdom; you shall also apply your heart to understanding, and shall apply it to the instruction of your son.

³ For if you shall call to wisdom, and utter your voice for understanding;

⁴ and if you shall seek it as silver, and search diligently for it as for treasures;

⁵ then shall you understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.

⁶ For the Lord gives wisdom, and from His presence come knowledge and understanding,

⁷ and He treasures up salvation for them that walk uprightly: He will protect their way;

⁸ that He may guard the righteous ways: and He will preserve the way of them that fear Him.

⁹ Then shall you understand righteousness and judgment, equity and every good path.

¹⁰ For if wisdom shall come into your understanding, and discernment shall seem pleasing to your soul,

¹¹ then good counsel shall guard you, and holy understanding shall keep you;

¹² to deliver you from the evil way, and from the man that speaks nothing faithfully.

¹³ Alas for those who forsake right paths, to walk in ways of darkness;

¹⁴ who rejoice in evils, and delight in wicked perverseness;

¹⁵ whose paths are crooked, and their courses winding;

¹⁶ to remove you far from the straight way, and to estrange you from a righteous purpose. My son, let not evil counsel overtake you,

¹⁷ of her who has forsaken the instruction of her youth, and has forgotten the covenant of God.

¹⁸ For she has fixed her house near death, and guided her wheels near Hades with the giants.

¹⁹ None that go by her shall return, neither shall they take hold of right paths, for they have not apprehended of the years of life.

²⁰ For had they gone in good paths, they would have easily found the paths of righteousness.

²¹ For the upright shall dwell in the earth, and the holy shall be left behind in it.

²² The paths of the ungodly shall perish out of the earth, and transgressors shall be driven away from it.