engKJVCPB: 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.

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