{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/web/proverbs/2","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-09T21:52:59.449Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","book":"Proverbs","bookSlug":"proverbs","chapter":2,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":1,"nextChapter":3,"totalChapters":31,"totalVerses":22},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you;"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"So as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures:"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and find the knowledge of God."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity;"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his saints."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Then you will understand righteousness and justice, equity and every good path."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things;"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil;"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths:"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God:"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"for her house leads down to death, her paths to the dead."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life:"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"that you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it."}],"citation":{"inline":"Proverbs 2 (WEB)","markdown":"[Proverbs 2](https://primebible.com/web/proverbs/2)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/proverbs/2 (accessed 2026-06-09)."}}