Proverbs 2

1 My son, if you accept what I say and value my instructions,

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

2 if you pay attention to wisdom and really try to understand;

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

3 if you cry out for insight and call loudly for help in understanding;

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

4 if you look for it as if it were silver and search for it as if it were hidden treasure;

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

5 then you will understand how to relate to the Lord and discover the truth about God.

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

6 The Lord is the source of wisdom; what he says provides knowledge that makes sense.

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

7 He gives good judgment to those who live right; he defends those who have good sense.

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

8 He supports those who act fairly and protects those who trust in him.

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

9 Then you will be able to recognize what is right and just and fair, in fact all that is good in the way you should live.

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

10 For wisdom will fill your mind, and knowledge will make you happy.

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

11 Good decisions will keep you on track; thinking logically will keep you safe.

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

12 Doing this will save you from the ways of evil, from men who tell twisted lies,

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

13 who turn away from following what is right to walk down paths of darkness.

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

14 They happily do wrong; they love how twisted evil is.

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

15 They live crooked lives doing deceitful things.

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

16 Doing this will also save you from a woman who acts immorally, from a woman who like a prostitute tries to seduce you with flattering words.

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

17 Such a woman has left her husband she married when she was young, forgetting the promises she made before God.

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

18 What happens in her house leads to death; following her way leads to the grave.

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

19 No one who goes to her comes back; they don't ever find the way back to life again.

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

20 So you should follow the way of the good, and make sure you stay on the paths of those who do right.

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

21 For only people who live right will live in the land; only honest people will remain there.

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

22 But the wicked will be thrown out of the land; those who are untrustworthy will be pulled out by the roots.

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