Proverbs 2 — WMB

2Verse 1My son, if you will receive my words,and store up my commandments within you,^{Verse 2}so as to turn your ear to wisdom,and apply your heart to understanding;^{Verse 3}yes, if you call out for discernment,and lift up your voice for understanding;^{Verse 4}if you seek her as silver,and search for her as for hidden treasures;^{Verse 5}then you will understand the fear of the LORD,and find the knowledge of God.^{+Verse 6}For the LORD gives wisdom.Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.^{Verse 7}He lays up sound wisdom for the upright.He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,^{Verse 8}that he may guard the paths of justice,and preserve the way of his holy ones.^{Verse 9}Then you will understand righteousness and justice,equity and every good path.^{Verse 10}For wisdom will enter into your heart.Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.^{Verse 11}Discretion will watch over you.Understanding will keep you,^{Verse 12}to deliver you from the way of evil,from the men who speak perverse things,^{Verse 13}who forsake the paths of uprightness,to walk in the ways of darkness,^{Verse 14}who rejoice to do evil,and delight in the perverseness of evil,^{Verse 15}who are crooked in their ways,and wayward in their paths,^{Verse 16}to deliver you from the strange woman,even from the foreigner who flatters with her words,^{Verse 17}who forsakes the friend of her youth,and forgets the covenant of her God;^{Verse 18}for her house leads down to death,her paths to the departed spirits.^{Verse 19}None who go to her return again,neither do they attain to the paths of life.^{Verse 20}Therefore walk in the way of good men,and keep the paths of the righteous.^{Verse 21}For the upright will dwell in the land.The perfect will remain in it.^{Verse 22}But the wicked will be cut off from the land.The treacherous will be rooted out of it.