Proverbs 2
1 My son, if thou wilt receive my sayings, and, my commandments, wilt treasure up by thee;
My son, if you accept my sayings, And lay up my commands with you,
2 So that thou direct, unto wisdom, thine ear, bend thy heart, unto understanding;
To cause your ear to attend to wisdom, You incline your heart to understanding,
3 Yea if, for understanding, thou cry aloud, for knowledge, utter thy voice;
For if you call for intelligence, [And] give forth your voice for intelligence,
4 If thou seek her as silver, and, like hid treasure, thou search for her,
If you seek her as silver, And search for her as hid treasures,
5 Then, shalt thou understand the reverence of Yahweh, and, the knowledge of God, shalt thou find.
Then you understand the fear of YHWH, And you find the knowledge of God.
6 For, Yahweh, giveth wisdom, out of his mouth, knowledge and understanding;
For YHWH gives wisdom, Knowledge and understanding from His mouth.
7 Yea he treasureth, for the upright, safety, A shield [is he] to them who walk in integrity,
Even to lay up substance for the upright, A shield for those walking uprightly.
8 To him that observeth the paths of justice, yea, the way of his men of lovingkindness, he doth guard.
To keep the paths of judgment, And He preserves the way of His saints.
9 Then, shalt thou understand righteousness and justice, and equity—every noble course.
Then you understand righteousness, And judgment, and uprightness—every good path.
10 When wisdom entereth thy heart, and, knowledge, to thy soul, is sweet,
For wisdom comes into your heart, And knowledge is pleasant to your soul,
11 Discretion, shall watch over thee, understanding, shall preserve thee: —
Thoughtfulness watches over you, Understanding keeps you,
12 To rescue thee from the way of the wrongful, from the man that speaketh perverse things;
To deliver you from an evil way, From any speaking contrary things,
13 From them who forsake the paths of rectitude, to walk in the ways of darkness;
Who are forsaking paths of uprightness, To walk in ways of darkness,
14 Who rejoice to do wrong, exult in the perversities of the wrongful;
Who are rejoicing to do evil, They delight in [the] contrariness of the wicked,
15 Whose paths, are twisted, and they are tortuous in their tracks:
Whose paths [are] crooked, Indeed, they are perverted in their ways.
16 To rescue thee, from the woman that is a stranger, from the female unknown, who with her speeches seduceth;
To deliver you from the strange woman, From the stranger who has made her sayings smooth,
17 Who forsaketh the friend of her youth, and, the covenant of her God, hath forgotten;
Who is forsaking the guide of her youth, And has forgotten the covenant of her God.
18 For she hath appointed, unto death, her house, and unto the shades, her courses;
For her house has inclined to death, And her paths to Rephaim.
19 None who go in unto her, come back, neither attain they unto the paths of life:
None going in to her return, Nor do they reach 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.
That you go in the way of the good, And keep the paths of the righteous.
21 For, the upright, shall abide on the earth, —and, the men of integrity, shall remain therein;
For the upright inhabit the earth, And the perfect are left in it,
22 But, the lawless, out of the earth, shall be cut off, and, traitors, shall they tear away therefrom.
And the wicked are cut off from the earth, And treacherous dealers plucked out of it!
