Proverbs 2 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

The Value of Wisdom

Pro 2:1

Pro 2:1My son, if you receive my words
and treasure up my commandments with you,

Pro 2:2

Pro 2:2making your ear attentive to wisdom
and inclining your heart to understanding;

Pro 2:3

Pro 2:3yes, if you call out for insight
and raise your voice for understanding,

Pro 2:4

Pro 2:4if you seek it like silver
and search for it as for hidden treasures,

Pro 2:5

Pro 2:5then you will understand the fear of the LORD
and find the knowledge of God.

Pro 2:6

Pro 2:6For the LORD gives wisdom;
from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;

Pro 2:7

Pro 2:7he stores up sound wisdom for the upright;
he is a shield to those who walk in integrity,

Pro 2:8

Pro 2:8guarding the paths of justice
and watching over the way of his saints.

Pro 2:9

Pro 2:9Then you will understand righteousness and justice
and equity, every good path;

Pro 2:10

Pro 2:10for wisdom will come into your heart,
and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;

Pro 2:11

Pro 2:11discretion will watch over you,
understanding will guard you,

Pro 2:12

Pro 2:12delivering you from the way of evil,
from men of perverted speech,

Pro 2:13

Pro 2:13who forsake the paths of uprightness
to walk in the ways of darkness,

Pro 2:14

Pro 2:14who rejoice in doing evil
and delight in the perverseness of evil,

Pro 2:15

Pro 2:15men whose paths are crooked,
and who are devious in their ways.

Pro 2:16

Pro 2:16So you will be delivered from the forbidden[fn] woman,
from the adulteress[fn] with her smooth words,

Pro 2:17

Pro 2:17who forsakes the companion of her youth
and forgets the covenant of her God;

Pro 2:18

Pro 2:18for her house sinks down to death,
and her paths to the departed;[fn]

Pro 2:19

Pro 2:19none who go to her come back,
nor do they regain the paths of life.

Pro 2:20

Pro 2:20So you will walk in the way of the good
and keep to the paths of the righteous.

Pro 2:21

Pro 2:21For the upright will inhabit the land,
and those with integrity will remain in it,

Pro 2:22

Pro 2:22but the wicked will be cut off from the land,
and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.

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ESV Footnotes

(2:16)

Hebrew strange

(2:16)

Hebrew foreign woman

(2:18)

Hebrew to the Rephaim

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The Value of Wisdom

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