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

(ESV)