Proverbs 2
NASB
Prov 2:1
&
My son, if you will receive my words And treasure my commandments within you,
Prov 2:2
&
Make your ear attentive to wisdom, Incline your heart to understanding;
Prov 2:3
&
For if you cry for discernment, Lift your voice for understanding;
Prov 2:4
&
If you seek her as silver And search for her as for hidden treasures;
Prov 2:5
&
Then you will discern the fear of the LORD And discover the knowledge of God.
Prov 2:6
&
For the LORD gives wisdom; From His mouth {come} knowledge and understanding.
Prov 2:7
&
He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; {He is} a shield to those who walk in integrity,
Prov 2:8
&
Guarding the paths of justice, And He preserves the way of His godly ones.
Prov 2:9
&
Then you will discern righteousness and justice And equity {and} every good course.
Prov 2:10
&
For wisdom will enter your heart And knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;
Prov 2:11
&
Discretion will guard you, Understanding will watch over you,
Prov 2:12
&
To deliver you from the way of evil, From the man who speaks perverse things;
Prov 2:13
&
From those who leave the paths of uprightness To walk in the ways of darkness;
Prov 2:14
&
Who delight in doing evil And rejoice in the perversity of evil;
Prov 2:15
&
Whose paths are crooked, And who are devious in their ways;
Prov 2:16
&
To deliver you from the strange woman, From the adulteress who flatters with her words;
Prov 2:17
&
That leaves the companion of her youth And forgets the covenant of her God;
Prov 2:18
&
For her house sinks down to death And her tracks {lead} to the dead;
Prov 2:19
&
None who go to her return again, Nor do they reach the paths of life.
Prov 2:20
&
So you will walk in the way of good men And keep to the paths of the righteous.
Prov 2:21
&
For the upright will live in the land And the blameless will remain in it;
Prov 2:22
&
But the wicked will be cut off from the land And the treacherous will be uprooted from it.
New American Standard Bible Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, California. All rights reserved.