Proverbs 2

1My son, if you accept my words and treasure my commandments within you,

2to make your ear attentive to wisdom, and your heart inclined to understanding.

3Indeed, if you call for discernment and raise your voice for understanding;

4If you seek her like silver and search for her like hidden treasures,

5then you will understand the fear of Yahweh and find knowledge of God.

6For Yahweh gives wisdom; knowledge and understanding come from his mouth.

7He treasures up sound wisdom for the upright and is a shield to those who walk with integrity.

8He protects the paths of justice and guards the way of his godly saints.

9Then you will understand righteousness, justice, equity, and every good path.

10For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will delight your soul.

11Discretion will guard you; understanding will protect you.

12to rescue you from the evil path, from the man speaking perverse things;

13those who forsake straight paths to walk in ways of darkness

14who gladly do evil and rejoice in perverse evils

15whose paths are crooked and who are devious in their tracks

16to rescue you from the other woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.

17who forsakes her youth's companion and forgets her God's covenant.

18For her house sinks to death, and her paths to the shades.

19All who enter her do not return, nor do they attain the paths of life.

20so that you walk in the way of the good and keep the paths of the righteous.

21For the upright will dwell in the land, and the blameless will remain in it.

22But the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be uprooted from it.