Proverbs 2 / 31
- 1My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you,
- 2turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding,
- 3and if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding,
- 4and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure,
- 5then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God.
- 6For the LORD gives wisdom, and from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
- 7He holds victory in store for the upright, he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless,
- 8for he guards the course of the just and protects the way of his faithful ones.
- 9Then you will understand what is right and just and fair-every good path.
- 10For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
- 11Discretion will protect you, and understanding will guard you.
- 12Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men, from men whose words are perverse,
- 13who leave the straight paths to walk in dark ways,
- 14who delight in doing wrong and rejoice in the perverseness of evil,
- 15whose paths are crooked and who are devious in their ways.
- 16It will save you also from the adulteress, from the wayward wife with her seductive words,
- 17who has left the partner of her youth and ignored the covenant she made before God.
- 18For her house leads down to death and her paths to the spirits of the dead.
- 19None who go to her return or attain the paths of life.
- 20Thus you will walk in the ways of good men and keep to the paths of the righteous.
- 21For the upright will live in the land, and the blameless will remain in it;
- 22but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be torn from it.