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         <div class="label">2</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">My son, if thou wilt receive my words,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.2.1"><span class="content">And hide my commandments with thee;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.2.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.2.2"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> apply thine heart to understanding;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.2.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Yea, if thou criest after knowledge,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.2.3"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> liftest up thy voice for understanding;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.2.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">If thou seekest her as silver,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.2.4"><span class="content">And searchest for her as </span><span class="add"><span class="content">for</span></span><span class="content"> hid treasures;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.2.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then shalt thou understand the fear of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.2.5"><span class="content">And find the knowledge of God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.2.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">For the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> giveth wisdom:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.2.6"><span class="content">Out of his mouth </span><span class="add"><span class="content">cometh</span></span><span class="content"> knowledge and understanding.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.2.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.2.7"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">He is</span></span><span class="content"> a buckler to them that walk uprightly.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.2.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He keepeth the paths of judgment,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.2.8"><span class="content">And preserveth the way of his saints.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.2.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.2.9"><span class="content">And equity; </span><span class="add"><span class="content">yea</span></span><span class="content">, every good path.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.2.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">When wisdom entereth into thine heart,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.2.10"><span class="content">And knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.2.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Discretion shall preserve thee,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.2.11"><span class="content">Understanding shall keep thee:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.2.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">To deliver thee from the way of the evil </span><span class="add"><span class="content">man</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.2.12"><span class="content">From the man that speaketh froward things;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.2.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Who leave the paths of uprightness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.2.13"><span class="content">To walk in the ways of darkness;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.2.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.2.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Who rejoice to do evil,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.2.14"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> delight in the frowardness of the wicked;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.2.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.2.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Whose ways </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> crooked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.2.15"><span class="content">And </span><span class="add"><span class="content">they</span></span><span class="content"> froward in their paths:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.2.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.2.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">To deliver thee from the strange woman,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.2.16"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Even</span></span><span class="content"> from the stranger </span><span class="add"><span class="content">which</span></span><span class="content"> flattereth with her words;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.2.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.2.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Which forsaketh the guide of her youth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.2.17"><span class="content">And forgetteth the covenant of her God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.2.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.2.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">For her house inclineth unto death,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.2.18"><span class="content">And her paths unto the dead.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.2.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.2.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">None that go unto her return again,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.2.19"><span class="content">Neither take they hold of the paths of life.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.2.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.2.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">That thou mayest walk in the way of good </span><span class="add"><span class="content">men</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.2.20"><span class="content">And keep the paths of the righteous.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.2.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.2.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">For the upright shall dwell in the land,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.2.21"><span class="content">And the perfect shall remain in it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.2.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.2.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.2.22"><span class="content">And the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.</span></span></div><div 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