Pro2:1 My child, if you accept my words and treasure up my commandments within you,
Pro2:2 making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding;
Pro2:3 if you indeed cry out for insight, and raise your voice for understanding;
Pro2:4 if you seek it like silver, and search for it as for hidden treasures--
Pro2:5 then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God.
Pro2:6 For the LORD gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;
Pro2:7 he stores up sound wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk blamelessly,
Pro2:8 guarding the paths of justice and preserving the way of his faithful ones.
Pro2:9 Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path;
Pro2:10 for wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;
Pro2:11 prudence will watch over you; and understanding will guard you.
Pro2:12 It will save you from the way of evil, from those who speak perversely,
Pro2:13 who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,
Pro2:14 who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perverseness of evil;
Pro2:15 those whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways.
Pro2:16 You will be saved from the loose woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words,
Pro2:17 who forsakes the partner of her youth and forgets her sacred covenant;
Pro2:18 for her way leads down to death, and her paths to the shades;
Pro2:19 those who go to her never come back, nor do they regain the paths of life.
Pro2:20 Therefore walk in the way of the good, and keep to the paths of the just.
Pro2:21 For the upright will abide in the land, and the innocent will remain in it;
Pro2:22 but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.