^ Pr 2.1: My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;
^ Pr 2.2: So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, [and] apply thine heart to understanding;
^ Pr 2.3: Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, [and] liftest up thy voice for understanding;
^ Pr 2.4: If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as [for] hid treasures;
^ Pr 2.5: Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.
^ Pr 2.6: For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth [cometh] knowledge and understanding.
^ Pr 2.7: He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: [he is] a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
^ Pr 2.8: He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.
^ Pr 2.9: Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; [yea], every good path.
^ Pr 2.10: When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;
^ Pr 2.11: Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:
^ Pr 2.12: To deliver thee from the way of the evil [man], from the man that speaketh froward things;
^ Pr 2.13: Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
^ Pr 2.14: Who rejoice to do evil, [and] delight in the frowardness of the wicked;
^ Pr 2.15: Whose ways [are] crooked, and [they] froward in their paths:
^ Pr 2.16: To deliver thee from the strange woman, [even] from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words;
^ Pr 2.17: Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
^ Pr 2.18: For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
^ Pr 2.19: None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
^ Pr 2.20: That thou mayest walk in the way of good [men], and keep the paths of the righteous.
^ Pr 2.21: For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.
^ Pr 2.22: But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.