Proverbs 2:5-20

Bible Text

[5] Then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, And find the knowledge of God. [6] For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding. [7] He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity; [8] That he may guard the paths of justice, And preserve the way of his saints. [9] Then you will understand righteousness and justice, Equity and every good path. [10] For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul. [11] Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you, [12] To deliver you from the way of evil, From the men who speak perverse things; [13] Who forsake the paths of uprightness, To walk in the ways of darkness; [14] Who rejoice to do evil, And delight in the perverseness of evil; [15] Who are crooked in their ways, And wayward in their paths: [16] To deliver you from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner who flatters with her words; [17] Who forsakes the friend of her youth, And forgets the covenant of her God: [18] For her house leads down to death, Her paths to the dead. [19] None who go to her return again, Neither do they attain to the paths of life: [20] That you may walk in the way of good men, And keep the paths of the righteous.