Proverbs 2

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1. 1My son, if you accept my words and keep my commandments with you;
2. 2so that you incline your ear to wisdom and apply your heart to understanding;
3. 3Yes, if you cry out for knowledge and raise your voice for understanding;
4. 4if you seek her as silver and search for her as for hidden treasures;
5. 5Then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God.
6. 6For the LORD gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
7. 7He stores up sound wisdom for the righteous; he is a shield to those who walk uprightly.
8. 8He guards the paths of judgment and protects the way of his saints.
9. 9Then you will understand righteousness, judgment, and equity; indeed, every good path.
10. 10When wisdom enters your heart, and knowledge is pleasant to your soul,
11. 11Discretion will protect you, and understanding will guard you.
12. 12to deliver you from the way of the evil man, from the man who speaks perverse things,
13. 13who leave the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,
14. 14who rejoice to do evil and delight in the perverseness of the wicked,
15. 15whose ways are crooked and who are perverse in their paths.
16. 16To rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the seductress who speaks with flattering words,
17. 17who abandons the guide of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.
18. 18For her house leads down to death, and her paths to the dead.
19. 19None who go to her return again, nor do they take hold of the paths of life.
20. 20That you may walk in the way of good men and keep the paths of the righteous.
21. 21For the upright will dwell in the land, and the perfect will remain in it.
22. 22But the wicked will be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors will be rooted out of it.