Proverbs 2
1 My son, if thou will receive my words, and lay up my commandments with thee,
My son, if you accept my sayings, And lay up my commands with you,
2 so as to incline thine ear to wisdom, and apply thy heart to understanding,
To cause your ear to attend to wisdom, You incline your heart to understanding,
3 yea, if thou cry after discernment, and lift up thy voice for understanding,
For if you call for intelligence, [And] give forth your voice for intelligence,
4 if thou seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures,
If you seek her as silver, And search for her as hid treasures,
5 then thou shall understand the fear of Jehovah, and find the knowledge of God.
Then you understand the fear of YHWH, And you find the knowledge of God.
6 For Jehovah gives wisdom. Out of his mouth is knowledge and understanding.
For YHWH gives wisdom, Knowledge and understanding from His mouth.
7 He lays up sound wisdom for the upright, a shield to those who walk in integrity,
Even to lay up substance for the upright, A shield for those walking uprightly.
8 that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his sanctified.
To keep the paths of judgment, And He preserves the way of His saints.
9 Then thou shall understand righteousness and justice and equity, yea, every good path.
Then you understand righteousness, And judgment, and uprightness—every good path.
10 For wisdom shall enter into thy heart, and knowledge shall be pleasant to thy soul,
For wisdom comes into your heart, And knowledge is pleasant to your soul,
11 discretion shall watch over thee, understanding shall keep thee,
Thoughtfulness watches over you, Understanding keeps you,
12 to deliver thee from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things,
To deliver you from an evil way, From any speaking contrary things,
13 who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,
Who are forsaking paths of uprightness, To walk in ways of darkness,
14 who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil,
Who are rejoicing to do evil, They delight in [the] contrariness of the wicked,
15 who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths,
Whose paths [are] crooked, Indeed, they are perverted in their ways.
16 to deliver thee from the interloping woman, even from the stranger who flatters with her words,
To deliver you from the strange woman, From the stranger who has made her sayings smooth,
17 who forsakes the companion of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God
Who is forsaking the guide of her youth, And has forgotten the covenant of her God.
18 (for her house inclines to death, and her paths to the dead;
For her house has inclined to death, And her paths to Rephaim.
19 none who go to her return again, nor do they attain to the paths of life),
None going in to her return, Nor do they reach the paths of life.
20 that thou may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.
That you go in the way of the good, And keep the paths of the righteous.
21 For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.
For the upright inhabit the earth, And the perfect are left in it,
22 But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, and the treacherous shall be rooted out of it.
And the wicked are cut off from the earth, And treacherous dealers plucked out of it!
