2:1  My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my
commandments with thee;
 2:2  So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, [and] apply
thine heart to understanding;
 2:3  Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, [and] liftest up thy
voice for understanding;
 2:4  If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as
[for] hid treasures;
 2:5  Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find
the knowledge of God.
 2:6  For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth [cometh]
knowledge and understanding.
 2:7  He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: [he is] a
buckler to them that walk uprightly.
 2:8  He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way
of his saints.
 2:9  Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment,
and equity; [yea], every good path.
 2:10  When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is
pleasant unto thy soul;
 2:11  Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep
thee:
 2:12  To deliver thee from the way of the evil [man], from the
man that speaketh froward things;
 2:13  Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways
of darkness;
 2:14  Who rejoice to do evil, [and] delight in the frowardness
of the wicked;
 2:15  Whose ways [are] crooked, and [they] froward in their
paths:
 2:16  To deliver thee from the strange woman, [even] from the
stranger [which] flattereth with her words;
 2:17  Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth
the covenant of her God.
 2:18  For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto
the dead.
 2:19  None that go unto her return again, neither take they
hold of the paths of life.
 2:20  That thou mayest walk in the way of good [men], and keep
the paths of the righteous.
 2:21  For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect
shall remain in it.
 2:22  But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the
transgressors shall be rooted out of it.