Proverbs chapter 2

My son, if/thou wilt receive my words, and \hide my commandments with thee;

So that/thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart \to understanding;

Yea,/if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice \for understanding;

If thou seekest/her as silver, and searchest for her as for \hid treasures;

Then shalt thou understand the/fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge \of God.

For the LORD giveth/wisdom: out of his mouth cometh \knowledge and understanding.

He layethp sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that \walk uprightly.

He keepeth/the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his \saints.

Then shalt thou understand righteousness,/and judgment, and equity; yea, every good \path.

When wisdom/entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is \pleasant unto thy soul;

Discretion/shall preserve thee, nderstanding shall keep thee:

To deliver thee from the way/of the evil man, from the man that speaketh \froward things;

Who leave/the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways \of darkness;

Who rejoice/to do evil, and delight in the \frowardness of the wicked;

Whose ways/are crooked, and they froward in \their paths:

To deliver thee from the strange/woman, \even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;

Which forsaketh/the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of \her God.

For her/house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the \dead.

None/that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the \paths of life.

That thou mayest walk/in the way of good men, and keep the \paths of the righteous.

For the upright/shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall emain in it.

But the wicked/shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out \of it.