Proverbs 2 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹ Keeping the paths of justice, and guarding the ways of saints.

² Then shalt thou understand justice, and judgment, and equity, and every good path.

³ 0 If wisdom shall enter into thy heart, and knowledge please thy soul:

⁴ 1 Counsel shall keep thee, and prudence shall preserve thee,

⁵ 2 That thou mayst be delivered from the evil way, and from the man that speaketh perverse things:

⁶ 3 Who leave the right way, and walk by dark ways:

⁷ 4 Who are glad when they have done evil, and rejoice in most wicked things:

⁸ 5 Whose ways are perverse, and their steps infamous.

⁹ 6 That thou mayst be delivered from the strange women, and from the stranger, who softeneth her words:

¹⁰ 7 And forsaketh the guide of her youth,

¹¹ 8 And hath forgotten the covenant of her God: for her house inclineth unto death, and her paths to hell.

¹² 9 None that go in unto her shall return again, neither shall they take hold of the paths of life,

¹³ 0 That thou mayst walk in a good way: and mayst keep the paths of the just.

¹⁴ 1 For they that are upright shall dwell in the earth, and the simple shall continue in it.

¹⁵ 2 But the wicked shall be destroyed from the earth: and they that do unjustly shall be taken away from it.

¹⁶ My son, forget not my law, and let thy heart keep my commandments.

¹⁷ For they shall add to thee length of days, and years of life and peace.

¹⁸ Let not mercy and truth leave thee, put them about thy neck, and write them in the tables of thy heart:

¹⁹ And thou shalt And grace and good understanding before God and men.

²⁰ Have confidence in the Lord with all thy heart, and lean not upon thy own prudence.

²¹ In all thy ways think on him, and he will direct thy steps.

²² I Be not wise in thy own conceit: fear God, and depart from evil: