| 2:1 | My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee; | |
| 2:2 | So that thou incline thy ear to wisdom, apply thy heart to understanding; | |
| 2:3 | Yes, if thou criest after knowledge, liftest up thy voice for understanding; | |
| 2:4 | If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as hid treasures; | |
| 2:5 | Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God. | |
| 2:6 | For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth knowledge and understanding. | |
| 2:7 | He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: a buckler to them that walk uprightly. | |
| 2:8 | He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints. | |
| 2:9 | Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; every good path. | |
| 2:10 | When wisdom entereth into thy heart, and knowledge is pleasant to thy soul; | |
| 2:11 | Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee: | |
| 2:12 | To deliver thee from the way of the evil , from the man that speaketh froward things; | |
| 2:13 | Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness; | |
| 2:14 | Who rejoice to do evil, delight in the frowardness of the wicked; | |
| 2:15 | Whose ways crooked, and froward in their paths: | |
| 2:16 | To deliver thee from the strange woman, from the stranger flattereth with her words; | |
| 2:17 | Who forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God. | |
| 2:18 | For her house inclineth to death, and her paths to the dead. | |
| 2:19 | None that go to her return again, neither do they take hold of the paths of life. | |
| 2:20 | That thou mayest walk in the way of good , and keep the paths of the righteous. | |
| 2:21 | For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it. | |
| 2:22 | But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it. | |