1 My son, if you accept my words, and treasure my instructions a2:1 Lit. instructions within you — ISV — Proverbs 2:1
2 making your ear attentive to wisdom, and turning your heart to understanding— ISV — Proverbs 2:2
3 if, indeed, you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding, ISV — Proverbs 2:3
4 if you seek it like silver and search for it like hidden treasure, ISV — Proverbs 2:4
5 then you will understand the fear of the LORD and learn to know God. ISV — Proverbs 2:5
6 For the LORD gives wisdom, and from his mouth come knowledge and understanding. ISV — Proverbs 2:6
7 He stores up sound wisdom for the upright and is a shield to those who walk in integrity— ISV — Proverbs 2:7
8 guarding the paths of the just and protecting the way of his faithful ones. ISV — Proverbs 2:8
9 Then you will understand what is right, just, and upright—every good path. ISV — Proverbs 2:9
10 For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul. ISV — Proverbs 2:10
11 Discretion b2:11 Or Wise planning will protect you; understanding will watch over you, ISV — Proverbs 2:11
12 delivering you from the way of evil, from men who speak perverse things, ISV — Proverbs 2:12
13 and from those who abandon the right c2:13 Lit. straight or upright path to travel along the ways of darkness; ISV — Proverbs 2:13
14 who delight in doing evil, and rejoice in the perverseness of evil; ISV — Proverbs 2:14
15 whose paths are crooked and who are devious in their ways, ISV — Proverbs 2:15
16 delivering you from the adulteress, from the immoral d2:16 Lit. foreign; i.e. one whose values are foreign to God’s Law woman with her seductive words, ISV — Proverbs 2:16
17 someone who abandoned the companion of her youth and forgot the covenant of her God. ISV — Proverbs 2:17
18 For her house leads down to death, and her paths down to the realm of the dead. ISV — Proverbs 2:18
19 None who go to her return, nor do they reach the paths of life. ISV — Proverbs 2:19
20 This is how you will walk in the way of good men and will keep to the paths of the righteous. ISV — Proverbs 2:20
21 For the upright will live in the land, and people of integrity will remain in it. ISV — Proverbs 2:21
22 But the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be uprooted from it. ISV — Proverbs 2:22