Proverbs 2

My son, if you will receive my words,

And store up my commandments within you;

²So as to turn your ear to wisdom,

And apply your heart to understanding;

³Yes, if you call out for discernment,

And lift up your voice for understanding;

⁴If you seek her as silver,

And search for her as for hidden treasures:

⁵Then you will understand the fear of Allah,

And find the knowledge of God.

⁶For Allah gives wisdom.

Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

⁷He lays up sound wisdom for the upright.

He is a shield to those who walk in integrity;

⁸That he may guard the paths of justice,

And preserve the way of his saints.

⁹Then you will understand righteousness and justice,

Equity and every good path.

¹⁰For wisdom will enter into your heart.

Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.

¹¹Discretion will watch over you.

Understanding will keep you,

¹²To deliver you from the way of evil,

From the men who speak perverse things;

¹³Who forsake the paths of uprightness,

To walk in the ways of darkness;

¹⁴Who rejoice to do evil,

And delight in the perverseness of evil;

¹⁵Who are crooked in their ways,

And wayward in their paths:

¹⁶To deliver you from the strange woman,

Even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;

¹⁷Who forsakes the friend of her youth,

And forgets the covenant of her God:

¹⁸For her house leads down to death,

Her paths to the dead.

¹⁹None who go to her return again,

Neither do they attain to the paths of life:

²⁰That you may walk in the way of good men,

And keep the paths of the righteous.

²¹For the upright will dwell in the land.

The blameless will remain in it.

²²But the wicked will be cut off from the land.

The treacherous will be rooted out of it.

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