Proverbs Chapter 2

Read it here with Strong’s numbers. 

>IF

Pro 2:1  - 5          

My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;

So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, [and] apply thine heart to understanding;

Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, [and] liftest up thy voice for understanding;

Luke 11:9 – 10 

And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as [for] hid treasures;

Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.

               

>THEN

Pro 2:6  - 9

For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth [cometh] knowledge and understanding.

Genesis 1:3 And God said… 

What does God say? His Word. 

And what of His word? Well…

John 1:1 - 5

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

The same was in the beginning with God.

All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

So not just wisdom but life come from the mouth of God via His Word.

He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: [he is] a buckler to them that walk uprightly.

He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.

Who is a saint? 

You dear reader are a saint 

IF you are a faithful follower of God.

Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; [yea], every good path.

>ELSE - GOOD

Pro 2:10 - 11

When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;

Notice that it says heart not brain or mind.

Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:

Discretion means purpose and to plot, ie: plot a course 

Stay on the path of righteousness

>ELSE - BAD

Pro 2:13 - 22

To deliver thee from the way of the evil [man], from the man that speaketh froward things;

Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;

Who rejoice to do evil, [and] delight in the frowardness of the wicked;

Whose ways [are] crooked, and [they] froward in their paths:

To deliver thee from the strange woman, [even] from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words;

Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.

For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.

None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.

That thou mayest walk in the way of good [men], and keep the paths of the righteous.

For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.

But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.