### World English Bible

Proverbs 1

## The Proverbs

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| # Chapter 2
#### 1 | My son, if you will receive my words, And store up my commandments within you;
#### 2 | So as to turn your ear to wisdom, And apply your heart to understanding;
#### 3 | Yes, if you call out for discernment, And lift up your voice for understanding;
#### 4 | If you seek her as silver, And search for her as for hidden treasures:
#### 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.
#### 21 | For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it.
#### 22 | But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.

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