Proverbs 2:5-20
New King James Version
5 (A)Then you will understand the fear of the Lord,
And find the knowledge of God.
6 (B)For the Lord gives wisdom;
From His mouth come knowledge and understanding;
7 He stores up sound wisdom for the upright;
(C)He is a shield to those who walk uprightly;
8 He guards the paths of justice,
And (D)preserves the way of His saints.
9 Then you will understand righteousness and justice,
Equity and every good path.
10 When wisdom enters your heart,
And knowledge is pleasant to your soul,
11 Discretion will preserve you;
(E)Understanding will keep you,
12 To deliver you from the way of evil,
From the man who speaks perverse things,
13 From those who leave the paths of uprightness
To (F)walk in the ways of darkness;
14 (G)Who rejoice in doing evil,
And delight in the perversity of the wicked;
15 (H)Whose ways are crooked,
And who are devious in their paths;
16 To deliver you from (I)the immoral woman,
(J)From the seductress who flatters with her words,
17 Who forsakes the companion of her youth,
And forgets the covenant of her God.
18 For (K)her house [a]leads down to death,
And her paths to the dead;
19 None who go to her return,
Nor do they [b]regain the paths of life—
20 So you may walk in the way of goodness,
And keep to the paths of righteousness.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 2:18 sinks
- Proverbs 2:19 Lit. reach
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