Proverbs 2

^{Proverbs 2:1} My son, if you accept my words and hide my commandments within you,

^{Proverbs 2:2} if you incline your ear to wisdom and direct your heart to understanding,

^{Proverbs 2:3} if you truly call out to insight and lift your voice to understanding,

^{Proverbs 2:4} if you seek it like silver and search it out like hidden treasure,

^{Proverbs 2:5} then you will discern the fear of the LORD and discover the knowledge of God.

^{Proverbs 2:6} For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.

^{Proverbs 2:7} He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk with integrity,

^{Proverbs 2:8} to guard the paths of justice and protect the way of His saints.

^{Proverbs 2:9} Then you will discern righteousness and justice and equity—every good path.

^{Proverbs 2:10} For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will delight your soul.

^{Proverbs 2:11} Discretion will watch over you, and understanding will guard you,

^{Proverbs 2:12} to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perversity,

^{Proverbs 2:13} from those who leave the straight paths to walk in the ways of darkness,

^{Proverbs 2:14} from those who enjoy doing evil and rejoice in the twistedness of evil,

^{Proverbs 2:15} whose paths are crooked and whose ways are devious.

^{Proverbs 2:16} It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words

^{Proverbs 2:17} who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.

^{Proverbs 2:18} For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits.

^{Proverbs 2:19} None who go to her return or negotiate the paths of life.

^{Proverbs 2:20} So you will follow in the ways of the good, and keep to the paths of the righteous.

^{Proverbs 2:21} For the upright will inhabit the land, and the blameless will remain in it;

^{Proverbs 2:22} but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be uprooted.