2:1 My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments
with thee;

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

2:3 Yea, if thou criest after knowledge,
and liftest up thy voice for understanding;

2:4 If thou seekest her as
silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;

2:5 Then shalt
thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.

2:6 For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and
understanding.

2:7 He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to
them that walk uprightly.

2:8 He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his
saints.

2:9 Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and
equity; yea, every good path.

2:10 When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant
unto thy soul;

2:11 Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding
shall keep thee:

2:12 To deliver thee from the way of the evil man,
from the man that speaketh froward things;

2:13 Who leave the paths of
uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;

2:14 Who rejoice to do
evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;

2:15 Whose ways
are crooked, and they froward in their paths:

2:16 To deliver thee
from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with
her words;

2:17 Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth
the covenant of her God.

2:18 For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.

2:19 None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the
paths of life.

2:20 That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths
of the righteous.

2:21 For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall
remain in it.

2:22 But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the
transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
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