When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;
When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee. Proverbs 2:10 is the antecedent; Proverbs 2:11 the consequent. The kind of "wisdom" to be sought for diligently, as being the effectual wisdom, is not that which gains merely a momentary entrance, but that which "enters" deeply "into the heart" (Psalms 119:130), so as to become "pleasant to the soul." When it is such, it not merely gives "every good" (Proverbs 2:9), but it "preserves" and "keeps" from all evil (Psalms 119:11; Psalms 119:104). It is he who 'delights in the law of the Lord' that is kept safe from 'walking in the counsel of the ungodly' (Psalms 1:1-2). "Preserve thee" - literally, 'keep guard over thee.' The Lord "keeps" His people "as the apple of his eye" (Deuteronomy 32:10; Isaiah 27:3).