Proverbs 2 — LSV

2Verse 1My son, if you accept my sayings, || And lay up my commands with you,^{Verse 2}To cause your ear to attend to wisdom, || You incline your heart to understanding,^{Verse 3}For if you call for intelligence, || [And] give forth your voice for intelligence,^{Verse 4}If you seek her as silver, || And search for her as hid treasures,^{Verse 5}Then you understand the fear of YHWH, || And you find the knowledge of God.^{Verse 6}For YHWH gives wisdom, || Knowledge and understanding from His mouth.^{Verse 7}Even to lay up substance for the upright, || A shield for those walking uprightly.^{Verse 8}To keep the paths of judgment, || And He preserves the way of His saints.^{Verse 9}Then you understand righteousness, || And judgment, and uprightness—every good path.^{Verse 10}For wisdom comes into your heart, || And knowledge is pleasant to your soul,^{Verse 11}Thoughtfulness watches over you, || Understanding keeps you,^{Verse 12}To deliver you from an evil way, || From any speaking contrary things,^{Verse 13}Who are forsaking paths of uprightness, || To walk in ways of darkness,^{Verse 14}Who are rejoicing to do evil, || They delight in [the] contrariness of the wicked,^{Verse 15}Whose paths [are] crooked, || Indeed, they are perverted in their ways.^{Verse 16}To deliver you from the strange woman, || From the stranger who has made her sayings smooth,^{Verse 17}Who is forsaking the guide of her youth, || And has forgotten the covenant of her God.^{Verse 18}For her house has inclined to death, || And her paths to Rephaim.^{Verse 19}None going in to her return, || Nor do they reach the paths of life.^{Verse 20}That you go in the way of the good, || And keep the paths of the righteous.^{Verse 21}For the upright inhabit the earth, || And the perfect are left in it,^{Verse 22}And the wicked are cut off from the earth, || And treacherous dealers plucked out of it!