2:1 My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you, 2:2 making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding; 2:3 yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding, 2:4 if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures, 2:5 then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God. 2:6 For the LORD gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding; 2:7 he stores up sound wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk in integrity, 2:8 guarding the paths of justice and watching over the way of his saints. 2:9 Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path; 2:10 for wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul; 2:11 discretion will watch over you, understanding will guard you, 2:12 delivering you from the way of evil, from men of perverted speech, 2:13 who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness, 2:14 who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perverseness of evil, 2:15 men whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways. 2:16 So you will be delivered from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words, 2:17 who forsakes the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God; 2:18 for her house sinks down to death, and her paths to the departed; 2:19 none who go to her come back, nor do they regain the paths of life. 2:20 So you will walk in the way of the good and keep to the paths of the righteous. 2:21 For the upright will inhabit the land, and those with integrity will remain in it, 2:22 but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.