Proverbs 2

1 My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you,

My sonne, if thou wilt receiue my wordes, and hide my commandements within thee,

2 so as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;

And cause thine eares to hearken vnto wisdome, and encline thine heart to vnderstanding,

3 yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;

(For if thou callest after knowledge, and cryest for vnderstanding:

4 if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures;

If thou seekest her as siluer, and searchest for her as for treasures,

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

Then shalt thou vnderstand the feare of the Lord, and finde the knowledge of God.

6 For the LORD gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

For the Lord giueth wisdome, out of his mouth commeth knowledge and vnderstanding.

7 He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,

He preserueth the state of the righteous: he is a shielde to them that walke vprightly,

8 that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his holy ones.

That they may keepe the wayes of iudgement: and he preserueth the way of his Saintes)

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

Then shalt thou vnderstand righteousnes, and iudgement, and equitie, and euery good path.

10 For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.

When wisdome entreth into thine heart, and knowledge deliteth thy soule,

11 Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,

Then shall counsell preserue thee, and vnderstanding shall keepe thee,

12 to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things,

And deliuer thee from the euill way, and from the man that speaketh froward things,

13 who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness,

And from them that leaue the wayes of righteousnes to walke in the wayes of darkenes:

14 who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil,

Which reioyce in doing euill, and delite in the frowardnesse of the wicked,

15 who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths,

Whose wayes are crooked and they are lewde in their paths.

16 to deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words,

And it shall deliuer thee from the strange woman, euen from the stranger, which flattereth with her wordes.

17 who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God;

Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the couenant of her God.

18 for her house leads down to death, her paths to the departed spirits.

Surely her house tendeth to death, and her paths vnto the dead.

19 None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life.

All they that goe vnto her, returne not againe, neither take they holde of the wayes of life.

20 Therefore walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

Therefore walke thou in the way of good men, and keepe the wayes of the righteous.

21 For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it.

For the iust shall dwell in the land, and the vpright men shall remaine in it.

22 But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.

But the wicked shalbe cut off from ye earth, and the transgressours shalbe rooted out of it.