Proverbs 2

1 My son, if you accept my words and hide my commandments within you,

O son my if you will receive words my and commandments my you will treasure with you.

2 if you incline your ear to wisdom and direct your heart to understanding,

To make attend to wisdom ear your you will incline heart your to understanding.

3 if you truly call out to insight and lift your voice to understanding,

That except to discernment you will call to understanding you will give voice your.

4 if you seek it like silver and search it out like hidden treasure,

If you will seek it like silver and like treasures you will search for it.

5 then you will discern the fear of the LORD and discover the knowledge of God.

Then you will discern [the] fear of Yahweh and [the] knowledge of God you will find.

6 For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.

For Yahweh he gives wisdom from mouth his knowledge and understanding.

7 He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk with integrity,

(He stores up *Q(K)*) for upright [people] success a shield to [those who] walk of integrity.

8 to guard the paths of justice and protect the way of His saints.

To guard [the] paths of justice and [the] way of (faithful [people] his *Q(K)*) he will preserve.

9 Then you will discern righteousness and justice and equity—every good path.

Then you will understand righteousness and justice and uprightness every course of good.

10 For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will delight your soul.

For it will come wisdom in heart your and knowledge to self your it will be pleasant.

11 Discretion will watch over you, and understanding will guard you,

Discretion it will watch over you understanding it will preserve you.

12 to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perversity,

To deliver you from a way evil from anyone [who] speaks perverse things.

13 from those who leave the straight paths to walk in the ways of darkness,

Those [who] leave paths of uprightness to walk in [the] ways of darkness.

14 from those who enjoy doing evil and rejoice in the twistedness of evil,

The [ones] joyful to do evil they exult in perverse things of evil.

15 whose paths are crooked and whose ways are devious.

Who paths their [are] twisted and [who are] crooked in tracks their.

16 It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words

To deliver you from a woman strange from a foreign [woman] [who] words her she makes smooth.

17 who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.

Who leaves [the] close friend of youth her and [the] covenant of God her she forgets.

18 For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits.

For she sank down to death house her and to [the] shades tracks her.

19 None who go to her return or negotiate the paths of life.

All [those who] go to her not they return! and not they reach [the] paths of life.

20 So you will follow in the ways of the good, and keep to the paths of the righteous.

So that you may walk in [the] way of good [people] and [the] paths of righteous [people] you will keep.

21 For the upright will inhabit the land, and the blameless will remain in it;

For upright [people] (they will dwell *L(bah)*) [the] land and blameless [people] they will remain in it.

22 but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be uprooted.

And wicked [people] from [the] land they will be cut off and treacherous [people] they will be torn away from it.