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title: Proverbs 2
slug: kjv/proverbs-2
createdAt: 2024-08-21T01:55:54.214Z
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**1 **My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;

**2 **So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, *and* apply thine heart to understanding;

**3 **Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, *and* liftest up thy voice for understanding;

**4 **If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as *for* hid treasures;

**5 **Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.

**6 **For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth *cometh* knowledge and understanding.

**7 **He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: *he is* a buckler to them that walk uprightly.

**8 **He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.

**9 **Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; *yea*, every good path.

**10 **When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;

**11 **Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:

**12 **To deliver thee from the way of the evil *man*, from the man that speaketh froward things;

**13 **Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;

**14 **Who rejoice to do evil, *and* delight in the frowardness of the wicked;

**15 **Whose ways *are* crooked, and *they* froward in their paths:

**16 **To deliver thee from the strange woman, *even* from the stranger *which* flattereth with her words;

**17 **Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.

**18 **For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.

**19 **None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.

**20 **That thou mayest walk in the way of good *men*, and keep the paths of the righteous.

**21 **For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.

**22 **But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.