The Proverbs 2

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1 My son if thou wilt receive my words and hide my commandments with thee ⚑

2 So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom and apply thine heart to understanding ⚑

3 Yea if thou criest after knowledge and liftest up thy voice for understanding ⚑

4 If thou seekest her as silver and searchest for her as for hid treasures ⚑

5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God ⚑

6 For the LORD giveth wisdom out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding ⚑

7 He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly ⚑

8 He keepeth the paths of judgment and preserveth the way of his saints ⚑

9 Then shalt thou understand righteousness and judgment and equity yea every good path ⚑

10 When wisdom entereth into thine heart and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul ⚑

11 Discretion shall preserve thee understanding shall keep thee ⚑

12 To deliver thee from the way of the evil man from the man that speaketh froward things ⚑

13 Who leave the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness ⚑

14 Who rejoice to do evil and delight in the frowardness of the wicked ⚑

15 Whose ways are crooked and they froward in their paths ⚑

16 To deliver thee from the strange woman even from the stranger which flattereth with her words ⚑

17 Which forsaketh the guide of her youth and forgetteth the covenant of her God ⚑

18 For her house inclineth unto death and her paths unto the dead ⚑

19 None that go unto her return again neither take they hold of the paths of life ⚑

20 That thou mayest 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 earth and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it ⚑

King James Version (1769) with Apocrypha · Crosswire Bible Society / eBible.org (standard text of 1769) · Public Domain

Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · public domain