PR-2:1  My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my

commandments with

thee;

PR-2:2  So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, [and] apply

thine heart to

understanding;

PR-2:3  Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, [and] liftest up

thy voice for

understanding;

PR-2:4  If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as

[for] hid

treasures;

PR-2:5  Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and

find the

knowledge of God.

PR-2:6  For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth [cometh]

knowledge and

understanding.

PR-2:7  He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: [he is] a

buckler to them

that walk uprightly.

PR-2:8  He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way

of his

saints.

PR-2:9  Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment,

and equity;

[yea], every good path.

PR-2:10  When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is

pleasant unto

thy soul;

PR-2:11  Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall

keep thee:

PR-2:12  To deliver thee from the way of the evil [man], from

the man that

speaketh froward things;

PR-2:13  Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways

of darkness;

PR-2:14  Who rejoice to do evil, [and] delight in the

frowardness of the

wicked;

PR-2:15  Whose ways [are] crooked, and [they] froward in their

paths:

PR-2:16  To deliver thee from the strange woman, [even] from the

stranger

[which] flattereth with her words;

PR-2:17  Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth

the covenant

of her God.

PR-2:18  For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto

the dead.

PR-2:19  None that go unto her return again, neither take they

hold of the

paths of life.

PR-2:20  That thou mayest walk in the way of good [men], and

keep the paths of

the righteous.

PR-2:21  For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the

perfect shall remain

in it.

PR-2:22  But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the

transgressors

shall be rooted out of it.

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