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Proverbs 2

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¹My son, if thou wilt receive my words, And lay up my commandments with thee; ²So as to incline thine ear unto wisdom, And apply thy heart to understanding; ³Yea, if thou cry after discernment, And lift up thy voice for understanding; ⁴If thou seek her as silver, And search for her as for hid treasures: ⁵Then shalt thou understand the fear of Jehovah, And find the knowledge of God. ⁶For Jehovah giveth wisdom; Out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding: ⁷He layeth up sound wisdom for the upright; He isa shield to them that walk in integrity; ⁸That he may guard the paths of justice, And preserve the way of his saints. ⁹Then shalt thou understand righteousness and justice, And equity, yea, every good path. ¹⁰For wisdom shall enter into thy heart, And knowledge shall be pleasant unto thy soul; ¹¹Discretion shall watch over thee; Understanding shall keep thee: ¹²To deliver thee from the way of evil, From the men that speak perverse things; ¹³Who forsake the paths of uprightness, To walk in the ways of darkness; ¹⁴Who rejoice to do evil, And delight in the perverseness of evil; ¹⁵Who are crooked in their ways, And wayward in their paths: ¹⁶To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words; ¹⁷That forsaketh the friend of her youth, And forgetteth the covenant of her God: ¹⁸For her house inclineth unto death, And her paths unto the dead; ¹⁹None that go unto her return again, Neither do they attain unto the paths of life: ²⁰That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, And keep the paths of the righteous. ²¹For the upright shall dwell in the land, And the perfect shall remain in it. ²²But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, And the treacherous shall be rooted out of it.