Proverbs 2
1 My son, if you will take my words to your heart, storing up my laws in your mind;
My sonne, if thou wilt receiue my wordes, and hide my commandements within thee,
2 So that your ear gives attention to wisdom, and your heart is turned to knowledge;
And cause thine eares to hearken vnto wisdome, and encline thine heart to vnderstanding,
3 Truly, if you are crying out for good sense, and your request is for knowledge;
(For if thou callest after knowledge, and cryest for vnderstanding:
4 If you are looking for her as for silver, and searching for her as for stored-up wealth;
If thou seekest her as siluer, and searchest for her as for treasures,
5 Then the fear of the Lord will be clear to you, and knowledge of God will be yours.
Then shalt thou vnderstand the feare of the Lord, and finde the knowledge of God.
6 For the Lord gives wisdom; out of his mouth come knowledge and reason:
For the Lord giueth wisdome, out of his mouth commeth knowledge and vnderstanding.
7 He has salvation stored up for the upright, he is a breastplate to those in whom there is no evil;
He preserueth the state of the righteous: he is a shielde to them that walke vprightly,
8 He keeps watch on the ways which are right, and takes care of those who have the fear of him.
That they may keepe the wayes of iudgement: and he preserueth the way of his Saintes)
9 Then you will have knowledge of righteousness and right acting, and upright behaviour, even of every good way.
Then shalt thou vnderstand righteousnes, and iudgement, and equitie, and euery good path.
10 For wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasing to your soul;
When wisdome entreth into thine heart, and knowledge deliteth thy soule,
11 Wise purposes will be watching over you, and knowledge will keep you;
Then shall counsell preserue thee, and vnderstanding shall keepe thee,
12 Giving you salvation from the evil man, from those whose words are false;
And deliuer thee from the euill way, and from the man that speaketh froward things,
13 Who give up the way of righteousness, to go by dark roads;
And from them that leaue the wayes of righteousnes to walke in the wayes of darkenes:
14 Who take pleasure in wrongdoing, and have joy in the evil designs of the sinner;
Which reioyce in doing euill, and delite in the frowardnesse of the wicked,
15 Whose ways are not straight, and whose footsteps are turned to evil:
Whose wayes are crooked and they are lewde in their paths.
16 To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue;
And it shall deliuer thee from the strange woman, euen from the stranger, which flattereth with her wordes.
17 Who is false to the husband of her early years, and does not keep the agreement of her God in mind:
Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the couenant of her God.
18 For her house is on the way down to death; her footsteps go down to the shades:
Surely her house tendeth to death, and her paths vnto the dead.
19 Those who go to her do not come back again; their feet do not keep in the ways of life:
All they that goe vnto her, returne not againe, neither take they holde of the wayes of life.
20 So that you may go in the way of good men, and keep in the footsteps of the upright.
Therefore walke thou in the way of good men, and keepe the wayes of the righteous.
21 For the upright will be living in the land, and the good will have it for their heritage.
For the iust shall dwell in the land, and the vpright men shall remaine in it.
22 But sinners will be cut off from the land, and those whose acts are false will be uprooted.
But the wicked shalbe cut off from ye earth, and the transgressours shalbe rooted out of it.
