< Proverbs 2 >
1 My son, if thou wilt receive my sayings, and, my commandments, wilt treasure up by thee;
son: child my if to take: recieve word my and commandment my to treasure with you
2 So that thou direct, unto wisdom, thine ear, bend thy heart, unto understanding;
to/for to listen to/for wisdom ear your to stretch heart your to/for understanding
3 Yea if, for understanding, thou cry aloud, for knowledge, utter thy voice;
that if: except if: except to/for understanding to call: call out to/for understanding to give: cry out voice your
4 If thou seek her as silver, and, like hid treasure, thou search for her,
if to seek her like/as silver: money and like/as treasure to search her
5 Then, shalt thou understand the reverence of Yahweh, and, the knowledge of God, shalt thou find.
then to understand fear LORD and knowledge God to find
6 For, Yahweh, giveth wisdom, out of his mouth, knowledge and understanding;
for LORD to give: give wisdom from lip his knowledge and understanding
7 Yea he treasureth, for the upright, safety, A shield [is he] to them who walk in integrity,
(to treasure *Q(K)*) to/for upright wisdom shield to/for to go: walk integrity
8 To him that observeth the paths of justice, yea, the way of his men of lovingkindness, he doth guard.
to/for to watch way justice and way: journey (pious his *Q(K)*) to keep: guard
9 Then, shalt thou understand righteousness and justice, and equity—every noble course.
then to understand righteousness and justice and uprightness all track good
10 When wisdom entereth thy heart, and, knowledge, to thy soul, is sweet,
for to come (in): come wisdom in/on/with heart your and knowledge to/for soul your be pleasant
11 Discretion, shall watch over thee, understanding, shall preserve thee: —
plot to keep: guard upon you understanding to watch you
12 To rescue thee from the way of the wrongful, from the man that speaketh perverse things;
to/for to rescue you from way: conduct bad: evil from man: anyone to speak: speak perversity
13 From them who forsake the paths of rectitude, to walk in the ways of darkness;
[the] to leave: forsake way uprightness to/for to go: walk in/on/with way: conduct darkness
14 Who rejoice to do wrong, exult in the perversities of the wrongful;
[the] glad to/for to make: do bad: evil to rejoice in/on/with perversity bad: evil
15 Whose paths, are twisted, and they are tortuous in their tracks:
which way their twisted and be devious in/on/with track their
16 To rescue thee, from the woman that is a stranger, from the female unknown, who with her speeches seduceth;
to/for to rescue you from woman be a stranger from foreign word her to smooth
17 Who forsaketh the friend of her youth, and, the covenant of her God, hath forgotten;
[the] to leave: forsake tame youth her and [obj] covenant God her to forget
18 For she hath appointed, unto death, her house, and unto the shades, her courses;
for to sink to(wards) death house: home her and to(wards) shade track her
19 None who go in unto her, come back, neither attain they unto the paths of life:
all to come (in): come her not to return: return [emph?] and not to overtake way life
20 To the end that thou walk in the way of good men, and, the paths of the righteous, that thou observe.
because to go: walk in/on/with way: conduct pleasant and way righteous to keep: obey
21 For, the upright, shall abide on the earth, —and, the men of integrity, shall remain therein;
for upright (to dwell *L(bah)*) land: country/planet and unblemished: blameless to remain in/on/with her
22 But, the lawless, out of the earth, shall be cut off, and, traitors, shall they tear away therefrom.
and wicked from land: country/planet to cut: eliminate and to act treacherously to pull from her