Proverbs 2:6–20

⁶For Jehovah giveth wisdom;

Out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding:

⁷He layeth up sound wisdom for the upright;

He is a shield to them that walk in integrity;

⁸That he may guard the paths of justice,

And preserve the way of his saints.

⁹Then shalt thou understand righteousness and justice,

And equity, yea, every good path.

¹⁰For wisdom shall enter into thy heart,

And knowledge shall be pleasant unto thy soul;

¹¹Discretion shall watch over thee;

Understanding shall keep thee:

¹²To deliver thee from the way of evil,

From the men that speak perverse things;

¹³Who forsake the paths of uprightness,

To walk in the ways of darkness;

¹⁴Who rejoice to do evil,

And delight in the perverseness of evil;

¹⁵Who are crooked in their ways,

And wayward in their paths:

¹⁶To deliver thee from the strange woman,

Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words;

¹⁷That forsaketh the friend of her youth,

And forgetteth the covenant of her God:

¹⁸For her house inclineth unto death,

And her paths unto the dead;

¹⁹None that go unto her return again,

Neither do they attain unto the paths of life:

²⁰That thou mayest walk in the way of good men,

And keep the paths of the righteous.