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cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../proverbs/1.htm" title="Proverbs 1">◄</a> Proverbs 2 <a href="../proverbs/3.htm" title="Proverbs 3">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">International Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/isv/esv/proverbs/2.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="heading">The Benefits of Embracing Wisdom</p><p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/2-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>My son, if you accept my words,</p> <p class="poetry2">and treasure my instructions<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="2:1 Lit. instructions within you">a</a></span> —</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/2-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>making your ear attentive to wisdom,</p> <p class="poetry2">and turning your heart to understanding—</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>if, indeed, you call out for insight</p> <p class="poetry2">and raise your voice for understanding,</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>if you seek it like silver</p> <p class="poetry2">and search for it like hidden treasure,</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>then you will understand the fear of the LORD</p> <p class="poetry2">and learn to know God.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>For the LORD gives wisdom,</p> <p class="poetry2">and from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>He stores up sound wisdom for the upright</p> <p class="poetry2">and is a shield to those who walk in integrity—</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>guarding the paths of the just</p> <p class="poetry2">and protecting the way of his faithful ones.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Then you will understand what is right, just,</p> <p class="poetry2">and upright—every good path.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>For wisdom will enter your heart,</p> <p class="poetry2">and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Discretion<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="2:11 Or Wise planning">b</a></span> will protect you;</p> <p class="poetry2">understanding will watch over you,</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>delivering you from the way of evil,</p> <p class="poetry2">from men who speak perverse things,</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>and from those who abandon the right<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="2:13 Lit. straight or upright">c</a></span> path</p> <p class="poetry2">to travel along the ways of darkness;</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>who delight in doing evil,</p> <p class="poetry2">and rejoice in the perverseness of evil;</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>whose paths are crooked</p> <p class="poetry2">and who are devious in their ways,</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>delivering you from the adulteress,</p> <p class="poetry2">from the immoral<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="2:16 Lit. foreign; i.e. one whose values are foreign to God’s Law ">d</a></span> woman with her seductive words,</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>someone who abandoned the companion of her youth</p> <p class="poetry2">and forgot the covenant of her God.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/2-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>For her house leads down to death,</p> <p class="poetry2">and her paths down to the realm of the dead.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/2-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>None who go to her return,</p> <p class="poetry2">nor do they reach the paths of life.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/2-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>This is how you will walk in the way of good men</p> <p class="poetry2">and will keep to the paths of the righteous.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/2-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>For the upright will live in the land,</p> <p class="poetry2">and people of integrity will remain in it.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/2-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>But the wicked will be cut off from the land,</p> <p class="poetry2">and the treacherous will be uprooted from it.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn1"><span 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