---
title: Joseph Smith Translation (1867 edition)
description: Proverbs from the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), 1867 edition.
authors:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - joseph-smith
tags:
  - translation
published: "1867"
publisher: RLDS Publication Board
publisher_place: Plano, Illinois
publisher_note: "The title page reads: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Joseph Smith, I. L. Rogers, E. Robinson, Publishing Committee; 1867."
edition: First edition (Plano, 1867)
language: en
type: book
chapter: 2
verse_count: 22
reference: "Joseph Smith Jr., *Joseph Smith Translation*, first edition (Plano, IL: RLDS Publication Board, 1867), Proverbs, chap. 2, https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  identifier: holyscripturestr00smituoft
  scan: University of Toronto / Trinity College Library copy, Internet Archive
  transcription: "OCR text of the 1867 scans (Toronto copy and a second copy, holyscriptures00smit), reconciled word by word; Romans was also checked against the page images. Method, per-chapter validation log and known limits: docs/jst-1867-import.md."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1867 US publication
  source: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  publication_year: 1867
---

# Proverbs 2

*Wisdom, promiseth godliness, safety, and right ways.*

**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.