Proverbs 2 — WBMS
2Verse 1My son, if thou receivest my words, and hidest my behests with thee;Verse 2that thine ear hear wisdom, bow thine heart to know prudence.Verse 3For if thou inwardly callest wisdom, and bowest thine heart to prudence;Verse 4if thou seekest it as money, and diggest it out as treasures;Verse 5then thou shalt understand the dread of the Lord, and shalt find the knowing of God.Verse 6For the Lord giveth wisdom; and prudence and knowing is of his mouth.Verse 7He shall keep the health of rightful [or rightwise] men, and he shall defend them that go simply.Verse 8And he shall keep the paths of rightwiseness, and he shall keep the ways of holy men.Verse 9Then thou shalt understand rightfulness [or rightwiseness], and doom, and equity, and each good path.Verse 10If wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowing pleaseth thy soul,Verse 11good counsel shall keep thee, and prudence shall keep thee;Verse 12that thou be delivered from an evil way, and from a man that speaketh wayward things.Verse 13Which forsake a rightful [or right] way, and go by dark ways;Verse 14which be glad, when they have done evil, and make full out joy in worst things;Verse 15whose ways be wayward, and their goings be of evil fame.Verse 16That thou be delivered from an alien woman, and from a strange woman, that maketh soft her words;Verse 17and forsaketh the duke of her time of marriage, and hath forgotten the covenant of her God.Verse 18For the house of her is bowed to death, and her paths to hell.Verse 19All that enter to her, shall not turn again, neither they shall catch the paths of life.Verse 20That thou go in a good way, and keep the paths of just [or rightwise] men.Verse 21Forsooth they that be rightful, shall dwell in the land; and simple men shall perfectly dwell therein.Verse 22But unfaithful men shall be lost from the land; and they that do wickedly, shall be taken away from it.