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Proverbs Chapter Two
December 3, 2016

Last week we started a study on the Book of Proverbs with a review of wisdom and how youth are wise when they listen to their parents. Today we will learn that wisdom gives discretion and can keep you from the ways of evil people.

Proverbs 2:1-6
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; 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. For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.

Because it is God who gives wisdom, we gain wisdom through a relationship with God. It is by seeking God and his knowledge with understanding that we can begin to gain wisdom.

Proverbs 2:7-11
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. Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path. When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:

God gives wisdom to the righteous along with discernment, fairness, and a good path forward in life.

Proverbs 2:12-22
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.

Wisdom keeps us from the way of evil people. It shows us the difference between God's righteousness and those who have left the path of righteousness to pursue their own desires. In the end, it is the righteous who remain; the wicked will be cut off from the earth.

All verses are from the King James Version.
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