Pr 2 (King James)

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

Pr 2 (Vulgate)

   ¹ [Fili mi, si susceperis sermones meos,
et mandata mea absconderis penes te :
   ² ut audiat sapientiam auris tua,
inclina cor tuum ad cognoscendam prudentiam.
   ³ Si enim sapientiam invocaveris,
et inclinaveris cor tuum prudentiæ ;
   ⁴ si quæsieris eam quasi pecuniam,
et sicut thesauros effoderis illam :
   ⁵ tunc intelliges timorem Domini,
et scientiam Dei invenies,
   ⁶ quia Dominus dat sapientiam,
et ex ore ejus prudentia et scientia.
   ⁷ Custodiet rectorum salutem,
et proteget gradientes simpliciter,
   ⁸ servans semitas justitiæ,
et vias sanctorum custodiens.
   ⁹ Tunc intelliges justitiam, et judicium,
et æquitatem, et omnem semitam bonam.]
   ¹⁰ [Si intraverit sapientia cor tuum,
et scientia animæ tuæ placuerit,
   ¹¹ consilium custodiet te,
et prudentia servabit te :
   ¹² ut eruaris a via mala,
et ab homine qui perversa loquitur ;
   ¹³ qui relinquunt iter rectum,
et ambulant per vias tenebrosas ;
   ¹⁴ qui lætantur cum malefecerint,
et exsultant in rebus pessimis ;
   ¹⁵ quorum viæ perversæ sunt,
et infames gressus eorum.
   ¹⁶ Ut eruaris a muliere aliena,
et ab extranea quæ mollit sermones suos,
   ¹⁷ et relinquit ducem pubertatis suæ,
   ¹⁸ et pacti Dei sui oblita est.
Inclinata est enim ad mortem domus ejus,
et ad inferos semitæ ipsius.
   ¹⁹ Omnes qui ingrediuntur ad eam non revertentur,
nec apprehendent semitas vitæ.
   ²⁰ Ut ambules in via bona,
et calles justorum custodias :
   ²¹ qui enim recti sunt habitabunt in terra,
et simplices permanebunt in ea ;
   ²² impii vero de terra perdentur,
et qui inique agunt auferentur ex ea.]