Proverbs 2 — MSB

2Verse 1My son, if you accept my words and hide my commandments within you,^{Verse 2}if you incline your ear to wisdom and direct your heart to understanding,^{Verse 3}if you truly call out to insight and lift your voice to understanding,^{Verse 4}if you seek it like silver and search it out like hidden treasure,^{Verse 5}then you will discern the fear of the LORD and discover the knowledge of God.^{Verse 6}For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.^{Verse 7}He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk with integrity,^{Verse 8}to guard the paths of justice and protect the way of His saints.^{Verse 9}Then you will discern righteousness and justice and equity—every good path.^{Verse 10}For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will delight your soul.^{Verse 11}Discretion will watch over you, and understanding will guard you,^{Verse 12}to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perversity,^{Verse 13}from those who leave the straight paths to walk in the ways of darkness,^{Verse 14}from those who enjoy doing evil and rejoice in the twistedness of evil,^{Verse 15}whose paths are crooked and whose ways are devious.^{Verse 16}It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words^{Verse 17}who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.^{Verse 18}For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits.^{Verse 19}None who go to her return or negotiate the paths of life.^{Verse 20}So you will follow in the ways of the good, and keep to the paths of the righteous.^{Verse 21}For the upright will inhabit the land, and the blameless will remain in it;^{Verse 22}but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be uprooted.