1 My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you; NHEB — Proverbs 2:1
2 So as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding; NHEB — Proverbs 2:2
3 Yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding; NHEB — Proverbs 2:3
4 If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures: NHEB — Proverbs 2:4
5 then you will understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God. NHEB — Proverbs 2:5
6 For the LORD gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding. NHEB — Proverbs 2:6
7 He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity; NHEB — Proverbs 2:7
8 that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his faithful ones. NHEB — Proverbs 2:8
9 Then you will understand righteousness and justice, equity and every good path. NHEB — Proverbs 2:9
10 For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul. NHEB — Proverbs 2:10
11 Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you, NHEB — Proverbs 2:11
12 to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things; NHEB — Proverbs 2:12
13 who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness; NHEB — Proverbs 2:13
14 who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil; NHEB — Proverbs 2:14
15 who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths: NHEB — Proverbs 2:15
16 To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words; NHEB — Proverbs 2:16
17 who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God: NHEB — Proverbs 2:17
18 for her house leads down to death, her paths to the dead. NHEB — Proverbs 2:18
19 None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life: NHEB — Proverbs 2:19
20 that you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous. NHEB — Proverbs 2:20
21 For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it. NHEB — Proverbs 2:21
22 But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be uprooted out of it. NHEB — Proverbs 2:22