Proverbs 2

1 My son, if you will take my words to your heart, storing up my laws in your mind;

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

2 So that your ear gives attention to wisdom, and your heart is turned to knowledge;

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

3 Truly, if you are crying out for good sense, and your request is for knowledge;

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

4 If you are looking for her as for silver, and searching for her as for stored-up wealth;

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

5 Then the fear of the Lord will be clear to you, and knowledge of God will be yours.

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

6 For the Lord gives wisdom; out of his mouth come knowledge and reason:

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

7 He has salvation stored up for the upright, he is a breastplate to those in whom there is no evil;

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

8 He keeps watch on the ways which are right, and takes care of those who have the fear of him.

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

9 Then you will have knowledge of righteousness and right acting, and upright behaviour, even of every good way.

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

10 For wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasing to your soul;

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

11 Wise purposes will be watching over you, and knowledge will keep you;

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

12 Giving you salvation from the evil man, from those whose words are false;

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

13 Who give up the way of righteousness, to go by dark roads;

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

14 Who take pleasure in wrongdoing, and have joy in the evil designs of the sinner;

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

15 Whose ways are not straight, and whose footsteps are turned to evil:

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

16 To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue;

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

17 Who is false to the husband of her early years, and does not keep the agreement of her God in mind:

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

18 For her house is on the way down to death; her footsteps go down to the shades:

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

19 Those who go to her do not come back again; their feet do not keep in the ways of life:

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

20 So that you may go in the way of good men, and keep in the footsteps of the upright.

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 be living in the land, and the good will have it for their heritage.

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

22 But sinners will be cut off from the land, and those whose acts are false will be uprooted.

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