Old Testament

Proverbs 2

Seeking and Receiving Wisdom

6 passages

Overview

A father calls his son to pursue wisdom with wholehearted urgency, declaring that God himself is its source and guardian, that it transforms the inner person and shields the faithful from wicked men and the adulteress whose path leads to death, and that the shape of one's life ultimately determines whether one inherits the land or is uprooted from it.

Passages

1–5The Conditional Call to Seek Wisdom 6–9Yahweh as the Source and Guarantor of Wisdom 10–11Wisdom Enters the Heart: Interior Transformation 12–15Deliverance from Wicked Men and Perverse Counsel 16–19Deliverance from the Adulteress and the Path to Death 20–22The Two Ways: The Destiny of the Righteous and the Wicked

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Proverbs 2

¹My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you,

²so as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;

³yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;

⁴if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures;

⁵then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and find the knowledge of God.

⁶For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

⁷He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,

⁸that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his saints.

⁹Then you will understand righteousness and justice, equity and every good path.

¹⁰For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.

¹¹Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,

¹²to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things,

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

¹⁴who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil,

¹⁵who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths,

¹⁶to deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words,

¹⁷who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God;

¹⁸for her house leads down to death, her paths to the departed spirits.

¹⁹None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life.

²⁰Therefore walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

²¹For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it.

²²But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.

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