Proverbs 2
1 My son, if thou will receive my words, and lay up my commandments with thee,
My son, if thou dost accept my sayings, And my commands dost lay up with thee,
2 so as to incline thine ear to wisdom, and apply thy heart to understanding,
To cause thine ear to attend to wisdom, Thou inclinest thy heart to understanding,
3 yea, if thou cry after discernment, and lift up thy voice for understanding,
For, if for intelligence thou callest, For understanding givest forth thy voice,
4 if thou seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures,
If thou dost seek her as silver, And as hid treasures searchest for her,
5 then thou shall understand the fear of Jehovah, and find the knowledge of God.
Then understandest thou fear of Jehovah, And knowledge of God thou findest.
6 For Jehovah gives wisdom. Out of his mouth is knowledge and understanding.
For Jehovah giveth wisdom, From His mouth knowledge and understanding.
7 He lays up sound wisdom for the upright, a shield to those who walk in integrity,
Even to lay up for the upright substance, 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 the way of His saints He preserveth.
9 Then thou shall understand righteousness and justice and equity, yea, every good path.
Then understandest thou 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 cometh into thy heart, And knowledge to thy soul is pleasant,
11 discretion shall watch over thee, understanding shall keep thee,
Thoughtfulness doth watch over thee, Understanding doth keep thee,
12 to deliver thee from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things,
To deliver thee from an evil way, From any speaking froward 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 frowardness of the wicked,
15 who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths,
Whose paths [are] crooked, Yea, 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 thee from the strange woman, From the stranger who hath made smooth her sayings,
17 who forsakes the companion of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God
Who is forsaking the guide of her youth, And the covenant of her God hath forgotten.
18 (for her house inclines to death, and her paths to the dead;
For her house hath inclined unto death, And unto Rephaim her paths.
19 none who go to her return again, nor do they attain to the paths of life),
None going in unto her turn back, 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 thou dost go in the way of the good, And the paths of the righteous dost keep.
21 For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.
For the upright do 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 from the earth are cut off, And treacherous dealers plucked out of it!
