Proverbs 2:1-22 - The Benefits Of Wisdom

¹ My son, if thou will receive my words, and lay up my commandments with thee, ² so as to incline thine ear to wisdom, and apply thy heart to understanding, ³ yea, if thou cry after discernment, and lift up thy voice for understanding, ⁴ if thou seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures, ⁵ then thou shall understand the fear of LORD, and find the knowledge of God. ⁶ For LORD gives wisdom. Out of his mouth [is] knowledge and understanding. ⁷ He lays up sound wisdom for the upright, a shield to those who walk in integrity, ⁸ that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his sanctified. ⁹ Then thou shall understand righteousness and justice and equity, [yea], every good path. ¹⁰ For wisdom shall enter into thy heart, and knowledge shall be pleasant to thy soul, ¹¹ discretion shall watch over thee, understanding shall keep thee, ¹² to deliver thee from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things, ¹³ who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness, ¹⁴ who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil, ¹⁵ who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths, ¹⁶ to deliver thee from the interloping woman, even from the stranger who flatters with her words, ¹⁷ who forsakes the companion of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God ¹⁸ (for her house inclines to death, and her paths to the dead; ¹⁹ none who go to her return again, nor do they attain to the paths of life), ²⁰ that thou may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous. ²¹ For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it. ²² But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, and the treacherous shall be rooted out of it.