Proverbs 2
1 My son, if you accept my words and keep my commands within you,
2 paying attention to wisdom and turning your heart toward understanding;
3 if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding,
4 if you seek it as you would silver and search for it as for hidden treasure,
5 then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God.
6 For the LORD is the one who gives wisdom; knowledge and understanding come from his mouth.
7 He stores up sound judgment for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk with integrity.
8 He guards the paths of justice and watches over the way of his faithful ones.
9 Then you will understand what is right, just, and fair—every good path.
10 For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will delight you.
11 Good judgment will watch over you; understanding will protect you.
12 All this will save you from the evil way and from the man who speaks perverse things,
13 from those who abandon straight paths to walk in dark ways,
14 who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perversity of evil,
15 whose ways are crooked and who stray along their paths;
16 all this will save you from the strange woman, from the foreign woman whose words are smooth.
17 She has abandoned the companion of her youth and forgotten the covenant of her God.
18 For her house sinks down to death; her paths lead to the dead.
19 None who go in to her return, or reach the paths of life.
20 So you will walk in the way of good people and keep to the paths of the righteous.
21 For the upright will live in the land, and the blameless will remain in it.
22 But the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be torn from it.
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