My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;Proverbs 2:1

So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;Proverbs 2:2

Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;Proverbs 2:3

If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;Proverbs 2:4

Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.Proverbs 2:5

For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.Proverbs 2:6

He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.Proverbs 2:7

He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.Proverbs 2:8

Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.Proverbs 2:9

When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;Proverbs 2:10

Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:Proverbs 2:11

To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;Proverbs 2:12

Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;Proverbs 2:13

Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;Proverbs 2:14

Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:Proverbs 2:15

To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;Proverbs 2:16

Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.Proverbs 2:17

For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.Proverbs 2:18

None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.Proverbs 2:19

That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.Proverbs 2:20

For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.Proverbs 2:21

But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.Proverbs 2:22