Proverbs 2

1 My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and wilt hide my commandments with thee,

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

2 That thy ear may hearken to wisdom: Incline thy heart to know prudence:

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

3 For if thou shalt call for wisdom, and incline thy heart to prudence:

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

4 If thou shalt seek her as money, and shalt dig for her as for a treasure:

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

5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and shalt find the knowledge of God.

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

6 Because the Lord giveth wisdom: and out of his mouth cometh prudence and knowledge.

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

7 He will keep the salvation of the righteous, and protect them that walk in simplicity.

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

8 Keeping the paths of justice, and guarding the ways of saints.

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

9 Then shalt thou understand justice, and judgment, and equity, and every good path.

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

10 If wisdom shall enter into thy heart, and knowledge please thy soul:

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

11 Counsel shall keep thee, and prudence shall preserve thee,

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

12 That thou mayst be delivered from the evil way, and from the man that speaketh perverse things:

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

13 Who leave the right way, and walk by dark ways:

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

14 Who are glad when they have done evil, and rejoice in most wicked things:

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

15 Whose ways are perverse, and their steps infamous.

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

16 That thou mayst be delivered from the strange women, and from the stranger, who softeneth her words:

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

17 And forsaketh the guide of her youth,

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

18 And hath forgotten the covenant of her God: for her house inclineth unto death, and her paths to hell. (questioned)

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

19 None that go in unto her shall return again, neither shall they take hold of the paths of life,

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

20 That thou mayst walk in a good way: and mayst keep the paths of the just.

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

21 For they that are upright shall dwell in the earth, and the simple shall continue in it.

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

22 But the wicked shall be destroyed from the earth: and they that do unjustly shall be taken away from it.

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