Proverbs 2:4-16

⁴and if thou shalt seek it as silver, and search diligently for it as for treasures;

⁵then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.

⁶For the Lord gives wisdom; and from his presence come knowledge and understanding,

⁷and he treasures up salvation for them that walk uprightly: he will protect their way;

⁸that he may guard the righteous ways: and he will preserve the way of them that fear him.

⁹Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment; and shalt direct all thy course aright.

¹⁰For if wisdom shall come into thine understanding, and discernment shall seem pleasing to thy soul,

¹¹good counsel shall guard thee, and holy understanding shall keep thee;

¹²to deliver thee from the evil way, and from the man that speaks nothing faithfully.

¹³Alas for those who forsake right paths, to walk in ways of darkness;

¹⁴who rejoice in evils, and delight in wicked perverseness;

¹⁵whose paths are crooked, and their courses winding;

¹⁶to remove thee far from the straight way, and to estrange thee from a righteous purpose. My son, let not evil counsel overtake thee,