Proverbios 2

¹ My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and wilt hide my commandments with thee, ² That thy ear may hearken to wisdom: Incline thy heart to know prudence: ³ For if thou shalt call for wisdom, and incline thy heart to prudence: ⁴ If thou shalt seek her as money, and shalt dig for her as for a treasure: ⁵ Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and shalt find the knowledge of God. ⁶ Because the Lord giveth wisdom: and out of his mouth cometh prudence and knowledge. ⁷ He will keep the salvation of the righteous, and protect them that walk in simplicity. ⁸ Keeping the paths of justice, and guarding the ways of saints. ⁹ Then shalt thou understand justice, and judgment, and equity, and every good path. ¹⁰ If wisdom shall enter into thy heart, and knowledge please thy soul: ¹¹ Counsel shall keep thee, and prudence shall preserve thee, ¹² That thou mayst be delivered from the evil way, and from the man that speaketh perverse things: ¹³ Who leave the right way, and walk by dark ways: ¹⁴ Who are glad when they have done evil, and rejoice in most wicked things: ¹⁵ Whose ways are perverse, and their steps infamous. ¹⁶ That thou mayst be delivered from the strange women, and from the stranger, who softeneth her words: ¹⁷ And forsaketh the guide of her youth, ¹⁸ And hath forgotten the covenant of her God: for her house inclineth unto death, and her paths to hell. ¹⁹ None that go in unto her shall return again, neither shall they take hold of the paths of life, ²⁰ That thou mayst walk in a good way: and mayst keep the paths of the just. ²¹ For they that are upright shall dwell in the earth, and the simple shall continue in it. ²² But the wicked shall be destroyed from the earth: and they that do unjustly shall be taken away from it.