Proverbs 2
1 My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you;
My son, if thou dost accept my sayings, And my commands dost lay up with thee,
2 So as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;
To cause thine ear to attend to wisdom, Thou inclinest thy heart to understanding,
3 Yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;
For, if for intelligence thou callest, For understanding givest forth thy voice,
4 If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures:
If thou dost seek her as silver, And as hid treasures searchest for her,
5 then you will understand the fear of YHWH, and find the knowledge of God.
Then understandest thou fear of Jehovah, And knowledge of God thou findest.
6 For YHWH gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
For Jehovah giveth wisdom, From His mouth knowledge and understanding.
7 He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity;
Even to lay up for the upright substance, A shield for those walking uprightly.
8 that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his faithful ones.
To keep the paths of judgment, And the way of His saints He preserveth.
9 Then you will understand righteousness and justice, equity and every good path.
Then understandest thou righteousness, And judgment, and uprightness — every good path.
10 For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
For wisdom cometh into thy heart, And knowledge to thy soul is pleasant,
11 Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,
Thoughtfulness doth watch over thee, Understanding doth keep thee,
12 to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things;
To deliver thee from an evil way, From any speaking froward things,
13 who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
Who are forsaking paths of uprightness, To walk in ways of darkness,
14 who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil;
Who are rejoicing to do evil, They delight in frowardness of the wicked,
15 who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths:
Whose paths [are] crooked, Yea, they are perverted in their ways.
16 To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;
To deliver thee from the strange woman, From the stranger who hath made smooth her sayings,
17 who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God:
Who is forsaking the guide of her youth, And the covenant of her God hath forgotten.
18 for her house leads down to death, her paths to the dead.
For her house hath inclined unto death, And unto Rephaim her paths.
19 None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life:
None going in unto her turn back, Nor do they reach the paths of life.
20 that you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.
That thou dost go in the way of the good, And the paths of the righteous dost keep.
21 For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it.
For the upright do inhabit the earth, And the perfect are left in it,
22 But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be uprooted out of it.
And the wicked from the earth are cut off, And treacherous dealers plucked out of it!
