Proverbs 2

CHAPTER 2

1My son, if thou receivest my words, and hidest my behests with thee;

2that thine ear hear wisdom, bow thine heart to know prudence.

3For if thou inwardly callest wisdom, and bowest thine heart to prudence;

4if thou seekest it as money, and diggest it out as treasures;

5then thou shalt understand the dread of the Lord, and shalt find the knowing of God.

6For the Lord giveth wisdom; and prudence and knowing is of his mouth.

7He shall keep the health of rightful [or rightwise] men, and he shall defend them that go simply.

8And he shall keep the paths of rightwiseness, and he shall keep the ways of holy men.

9Then thou shalt understand rightfulness [or rightwiseness], and doom, and equity, and each good path.

10If wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowing pleaseth thy soul,

11good counsel shall keep thee, and prudence shall keep thee;

12that thou be delivered from an evil way, and from a man that speaketh wayward things.

13Which forsake a rightful [or right] way, and go by dark ways;

14which be glad, when they have done evil, and make full out joy in worst things;

15whose ways be wayward, and their goings be of evil fame.

16That thou be delivered from an alien woman, and from a strange woman, that maketh soft her words;

17and forsaketh the duke of her time of marriage, and hath forgotten the covenant of her God.

18For the house of her is bowed to death, and her paths to hell.

19All that enter to her, shall not turn again, neither they shall catch the paths of life.

20That thou go in a good way, and keep the paths of just [or rightwise] men.

21Forsooth they that be rightful, shall dwell in the land; and simple men shall perfectly dwell therein.

22But unfaithful men shall be lost from the land; and they that do wickedly, shall be taken away from it.

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