Proverbs 2

1 My son, if thou wilt receive my sayings, and, my commandments, wilt treasure up by thee;

My son, if you would accept my words, and conceal my commandments within you,

2 So that thou direct, unto wisdom, thine ear, bend thy heart, unto understanding;

so that your ears may listen to wisdom, then bend your heart in order to know prudence.

3 Yea if, for understanding, thou cry aloud, for knowledge, utter thy voice;

For if you would call upon wisdom and bend your heart to prudence,

4 If thou seek her as silver, and, like hid treasure, thou search for her,

if you will seek her like money, and dig for her as if for treasure,

5 Then, shalt thou understand the reverence of Yahweh, and, the knowledge of God, shalt thou find.

then you will understand the fear of the Lord, and you will discover the knowledge of God.

6 For, Yahweh, giveth wisdom, out of his mouth, knowledge and understanding;

For the Lord bestows wisdom, and out of his mouth, prudence and knowledge.

7 Yea he treasureth, for the upright, safety, A shield [is he] to them who walk in integrity,

He will preserve the salvation of the righteous, and he will protect those who walk in simplicity:

8 To him that observeth the paths of justice, yea, the way of his men of lovingkindness, he doth guard.

serving the paths of justice, and guarding the ways of sanctity.

9 Then, shalt thou understand righteousness and justice, and equity—every noble course.

Then you shall understand justice and judgment, and equity, and every good path.

10 When wisdom entereth thy heart, and, knowledge, to thy soul, is sweet,

If wisdom is to enter into your heart, and if knowledge is to become pleasing to your soul,

11 Discretion, shall watch over thee, understanding, shall preserve thee: —

then counsel must guard you, and prudence must serve you,

12 To rescue thee from the way of the wrongful, from the man that speaketh perverse things;

so that you may be rescued from the evil way, and from the man who speaks perversities,

13 From them who forsake the paths of rectitude, to walk in the ways of darkness;

from those who leave the straight path to walk in dark ways,

14 Who rejoice to do wrong, exult in the perversities of the wrongful;

who rejoice when they have done evil, and who exult in the most wicked things.

15 Whose paths, are twisted, and they are tortuous in their tracks:

Their ways are perverse, and their steps are infamous.

16 To rescue thee, from the woman that is a stranger, from the female unknown, who with her speeches seduceth;

So may you be rescued from the foreign woman, and from the outsider, who softens her speech,

17 Who forsaketh the friend of her youth, and, the covenant of her God, hath forgotten;

and who leaves behind the Guide of her youth,

18 For she hath appointed, unto death, her house, and unto the shades, her courses;

and who has forgotten the covenant of her God. For her household inclines toward death, and her paths toward Hell. (questioned)

19 None who go in unto her, come back, neither attain they unto the paths of life:

All those who enter to her will not return again, nor will they take hold of the paths of life.

20 To the end that thou walk in the way of good men, and, the paths of the righteous, that thou observe.

So may you walk in the good way, and keep to the difficult paths of the just.

21 For, the upright, shall abide on the earth, —and, the men of integrity, shall remain therein;

For those who are upright shall live upon the earth, and the simple shall continue upon it.

22 But, the lawless, out of the earth, shall be cut off, and, traitors, shall they tear away therefrom.

Yet truly, the impious shall perish from the earth, and those who act unjustly shall be taken away from it.