Proverbs 2:3-14

³Truly, if you are crying out for good sense, and your request is for knowledge;

⁴If you are looking for her as for silver, and searching for her as for stored-up wealth;

⁵Then the fear of the Lord will be clear to you, and knowledge of God will be yours.

⁶For the Lord gives wisdom; out of his mouth come knowledge and reason:

⁷He has salvation stored up for the upright, he is a breastplate to those in whom there is no evil;

⁸He keeps watch on the ways which are right, and takes care of those who have the fear of him.

⁹Then you will have knowledge of righteousness and right acting, and upright behaviour, even of every good way.

¹⁰For wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasing to your soul;

¹¹Wise purposes will be watching over you, and knowledge will keep you;

¹²Giving you salvation from the evil man, from those whose words are false;

¹³Who give up the way of righteousness, to go by dark roads;

¹⁴Who take pleasure in wrongdoing, and have joy in the evil designs of the sinner;