2:1 My son, if you accept my words, if you store up my commands within you,
2:2 by paying attention to wisdom with your ear, by reaching out for understanding with your heart,
2:3 if indeed you call out for intelligence, if you raise your voice for understanding,
2:4 if you search for it like silver, if you hunt for it like hidden treasure,
2:5 then you will understand the fear of the Lord, then you will find the knowledge of God,
2:6 because the Lord gives wisdom. Knowledge and understanding come from his mouth.
2:7 He stores up sound judgment for upright people. He is a shield for those who walk in integrity.
2:8 He protects those who walk on paths of justice. He guards the way of his favored ones.
2:9 Then you will understand righteousness, justice, and fairness—every good path,
2:10 because wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant for your soul.
2:11 Foresight will stand guard over you. Understanding will protect you.
2:12 It will save you from the evil way, from the man who speaks perverse things,
2:13 from those who abandon upright paths in order to walk in the ways of darkness.
2:14 It will save you from those who enjoy doing evil, from those who celebrate the twisted ways of evil,
2:15 from those whose paths are crooked, and from those whose ways are devious.
2:16 Wisdom will save you from the immoral woman, from the unfaithful woman with her seductive words,
2:17 who abandons the husband of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.
2:18 So she sinks down to death, which becomes her house. Her way of life leads down to the spirits of the dead.
2:19 All who enter her house never return. They never reach the paths of life.
2:20 This is how to walk in the way of good people, how to stay on the paths of the righteous.
2:21 Yes, the upright will live in the land, and people with integrity will remain in it,
2:22 but wicked people will be cut off from the land, and treacherous people will be torn out of it.
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