The Book of Proverbs

Chapter-2

Proverbs 2:1 My son, if you would accept my words, and conceal my commandments within you,

 

Proverbs 2:2 so that your ears may listen to wisdom, then bend your heart in order to know prudence.

 

Proverbs 2:3 For if you would call upon wisdom and bend your heart to prudence,

 

Proverbs 2:4 if you will seek her like money, and dig for her as if for treasure,

 

Proverbs 2:5 then you will understand the fear of the Lord, and you will discover the knowledge of God.

 

Proverbs 2:6 For the Lord bestows wisdom, and out of his mouth, prudence and knowledge.

 

Proverbs 2:7 He will preserve the salvation of the righteous, and he will protect those who walk in simplicity:

 

Proverbs 2:8 serving the paths of justice, and guarding the ways of sanctity.

 

Proverbs 2:9 Then you shall understand justice and judgment, and equity, and every good path.

 

Proverbs 2:10 If wisdom is to enter into your heart, and if knowledge is to become pleasing to your soul,

 

Proverbs 2:11 then counsel must guard you, and prudence must serve you,

 

Proverbs 2:12 so that you may be rescued from the evil way, and from the man who speaks perversities,

 

Proverbs 2:13 from those who leave the straight path to walk in dark ways,

 

Proverbs 2:14 who rejoice when they have done evil, and who exult in the most wicked things.

 

Proverbs 2:15 Their ways are perverse, and their steps are infamous.

 

Proverbs 2:16 So may you be rescued from the foreign woman, and from the outsider, who softens her speech,

 

Proverbs 2:17 and who leaves behind the Guide of her youth,

 

Proverbs 2:18 and who has forgotten the covenant of her God. For her household inclines toward death, and her paths toward Hell.

 

Proverbs 2:19 All those who enter to her will not return again, nor will they take hold of the paths of life.

 

Proverbs 2:20 So may you walk in the good way, and keep to the difficult paths of the just.

 

Proverbs 2:21 For those who are upright shall live upon the earth, and the simple shall continue upon it.

 

Proverbs 2:22 Yet truly, the impious shall perish from the earth, and those who act unjustly shall be taken away from it.