Proverbs 2
1 My son, if thou wilt receive my sayings, and, my commandments, wilt treasure up by thee;
Oh, my son, that thou wouldst receive my words, And treasure up my precepts within thee;
2 So that thou direct, unto wisdom, thine ear, bend thy heart, unto understanding;
That thou wouldst apply thine ear to wisdom, And incline thy heart to understanding!
3 Yea if, for understanding, thou cry aloud, for knowledge, utter thy voice;
For if thou wilt call aloud to knowledge, And lift up thy voice to understanding, —
4 If thou seek her as silver, and, like hid treasure, thou search for her,
If thou wilt seek her as silver, And search for her as for hidden treasures,
5 Then, shalt thou understand the reverence of Yahweh, and, the knowledge of God, shalt thou find.
Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, And find the knowledge of God.
6 For, Yahweh, giveth wisdom, out of his mouth, knowledge and understanding;
For the LORD giveth wisdom; From his mouth proceed knowledge and understanding:
7 Yea he treasureth, for the upright, safety, A shield [is he] to them who walk in integrity,
He layeth up safety for the righteous; He is a shield to them that walk uprightly:
8 To him that observeth the paths of justice, yea, the way of his men of lovingkindness, he doth guard.
He guardeth the paths of equity, And defendeth the way of his servants.
9 Then, shalt thou understand righteousness and justice, and equity—every noble course.
Then shalt thou understand righteousness and equity And uprightness, yea, every good path.
10 When wisdom entereth thy heart, and, knowledge, to thy soul, is sweet,
When wisdom entereth into thy heart, And knowledge is pleasant to thy soul,
11 Discretion, shall watch over thee, understanding, shall preserve thee: —
Discretion will guard thee, Understanding will preserve thee.
12 To rescue thee from the way of the wrongful, from the man that speaketh perverse things;
It will deliver thee from the way of the wicked, From the men who speak perverse things;
13 From them who forsake the paths of rectitude, to walk in the ways of darkness;
Who forsake the paths of uprightness, To walk in the ways of darkness;
14 Who rejoice to do wrong, exult in the perversities of the wrongful;
Who rejoice in doing evil, And delight in the perverseness of the wicked;
15 Whose paths, are twisted, and they are tortuous in their tracks:
Whose paths are crooked, And who are froward in their ways.
16 To rescue thee, from the woman that is a stranger, from the female unknown, who with her speeches seduceth;
It will deliver thee from the wife of another, From the stranger, who useth smooth words;
17 Who forsaketh the friend of her youth, and, the covenant of her God, hath forgotten;
Who forsaketh the friend of her youth, And forgetteth the covenant of her God.
18 For she hath appointed, unto death, her house, and unto the shades, her courses;
For her house sinketh down to Death, And her paths to the shades of the dead:
19 None who go in unto her, come back, neither attain they unto the paths of life:
None that go to her return again; They will not attain 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.
Therefore walk thou in the way of good men, 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 shall dwell in the land, And the righteous shall remain in it;
22 But, the lawless, out of the earth, shall be cut off, and, traitors, shall they tear away therefrom.
But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, And transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
