Pro 2 | ESV | STEP | My son , if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you ,

‏ Proverbs 2

The Value of Wisdom

1 ^aMy son, ^bif you receive my words
and treasure up my commandments with you,
2 making your ear attentive to wisdom
and inclining your heart to understanding;
3 yes, if you call out for insight
and raise your voice ^cfor understanding,
4 if you seek it like ^dsilver
and search for it as for ^ehidden treasures,
5 then ^fyou will understand the fear of the Lord
and find the knowledge of God.
6 For ^gthe Lord gives wisdom;
from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;
7 he stores up sound wisdom for the upright;
he is ^ha shield to those who ⁱwalk in integrity,
8 guarding the paths of justice
and ^jwatching over the way of his ^ksaints.
9 ^lThen you will understand ^mrighteousness and justice
and equity, every good path;
10 for wisdom will come into your heart,
and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;
11 ⁿdiscretion will ^owatch over you,
understanding will guard you,
12 delivering you from the way of evil,
from men of perverted speech,
13 who forsake the paths of uprightness
to ^pwalk in the ways of darkness,
14 who ^qrejoice in doing evil
and ^rdelight in the perverseness of evil,
15 men whose ^spaths are crooked,
^tand who are ^udevious in their ways.
16 So ^vyou will be delivered from the forbidden ^{▼▼Hebrew strange} woman,
from ^xthe adulteress ^{▼▼Hebrew foreign woman} with ^zher smooth words,
17 who forsakes ^aathe companion of her youth
and forgets ^abthe covenant of her God;
18 ^acfor her house sinks down to death,
and her paths to the departed; ^{▼▼Hebrew to the Rephaim}
19 none who go to her come back,
nor do they regain the paths of life.
20 So you will walk in the way of the good
and keep to the paths of the righteous.
21 For the upright ^aewill inhabit the land,
and those with integrity will remain in it,
22 but the wicked will be ^afcut off from the land,
and the treacherous will be ^agrooted out of it.