Proverbs 2
1 My son, if you accept my words and hide my commandments within you,
My son, if thou wilt receive my sayings, and, my commandments, wilt treasure up by thee;
2 if you incline your ear to wisdom and direct your heart to understanding,
So that thou direct, unto wisdom, thine ear, bend thy heart, unto understanding;
3 if you truly call out to insight and lift your voice to understanding,
Yea if, for understanding, thou cry aloud, for knowledge, utter thy voice;
4 if you seek it like silver and search it out like hidden treasure,
If thou seek her as silver, and, like hid treasure, thou search for her,
5 then you will discern the fear of the LORD and discover the knowledge of God.
Then, shalt thou understand the reverence of Yahweh, and, the knowledge of God, shalt thou find.
6 For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.
For, Yahweh, giveth wisdom, out of his mouth, knowledge and understanding;
7 He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk with integrity,
Yea he treasureth, for the upright, safety, A shield [is he] to them who walk in integrity,
8 to guard the paths of justice and protect the way of His saints.
To him that observeth the paths of justice, yea, the way of his men of lovingkindness, he doth guard.
9 Then you will discern righteousness and justice and equity—every good path.
Then, shalt thou understand righteousness and justice, and equity—every noble course.
10 For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will delight your soul.
When wisdom entereth thy heart, and, knowledge, to thy soul, is sweet,
11 Discretion will watch over you, and understanding will guard you,
Discretion, shall watch over thee, understanding, shall preserve thee: —
12 to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perversity,
To rescue thee from the way of the wrongful, from the man that speaketh perverse things;
13 from those who leave the straight paths to walk in the ways of darkness,
From them who forsake the paths of rectitude, to walk in the ways of darkness;
14 from those who enjoy doing evil and rejoice in the twistedness of evil,
Who rejoice to do wrong, exult in the perversities of the wrongful;
15 whose paths are crooked and whose ways are devious.
Whose paths, are twisted, and they are tortuous in their tracks:
16 It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words
To rescue thee, from the woman that is a stranger, from the female unknown, who with her speeches seduceth;
17 who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.
Who forsaketh the friend of her youth, and, the covenant of her God, hath forgotten;
18 For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits.
For she hath appointed, unto death, her house, and unto the shades, her courses;
19 None who go to her return or negotiate the paths of life.
None who go in unto her, come back, neither attain they unto the paths of life:
20 So you will follow in the ways of the good, and keep to the paths of the righteous.
To the end that thou walk in the way of good men, and, the paths of the righteous, that thou observe.
21 For the upright will inhabit the land, and the blameless will remain in it;
For, the upright, shall abide on the earth, —and, the men of integrity, shall remain therein;
22 but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be uprooted.
But, the lawless, out of the earth, shall be cut off, and, traitors, shall they tear away therefrom.
