Proverbs 2
1 O son my if you will receive words my and commandments my you will treasure with you.
[My] son, if you will receive the utterance of my commandment, and hide it with you;
2 To make attend to wisdom ear your you will incline heart your to understanding.
your ear shall listen to wisdom; you shall also apply your heart to understanding, and shall apply it to the instruction of your son.
3 That except to discernment you will call to understanding you will give voice your.
For it you shall call to wisdom, and utter your voice for understanding;
4 If you will seek it like silver and like treasures you will search for it.
and if you shall seek it as silver, and search diligently for it as for treasures;
5 Then you will discern [the] fear of Yahweh and [the] knowledge of God you will find.
then shall you understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.
6 For Yahweh he gives wisdom from mouth his knowledge and understanding.
For the Lord gives wisdom; and from his presence [come] knowledge and understanding,
7 (He stores up *Q(K)*) for upright [people] success a shield to [those who] walk of integrity.
and he treasures up salvation for them that walk uprightly: he will protect their way;
8 To guard [the] paths of justice and [the] way of (faithful [people] his *Q(K)*) he will preserve.
that he may guard the righteous ways: and he will preserve the way of them that fear him.
9 Then you will understand righteousness and justice and uprightness every course of good.
Then shall you understand righteousness, and judgement; and shall direct all your course aright.
10 For it will come wisdom in heart your and knowledge to self your it will be pleasant.
For if wisdom shall come into your understanding, and discernment shall seem pleasing to your soul,
11 Discretion it will watch over you understanding it will preserve you.
good counsel shall guard you, and holy understanding shall keep you;
12 To deliver you from a way evil from anyone [who] speaks perverse things.
to deliver you from the evil way, and from the man that speaks nothing faithfully.
13 Those [who] leave paths of uprightness to walk in [the] ways of darkness.
Alas [for those] who forsake right paths, to walk in ways of darkness;
14 The [ones] joyful to do evil they exult in perverse things of evil.
who rejoice in evils, and delight in wicked perverseness;
15 Who paths their [are] twisted and [who are] crooked in tracks their.
whose paths are crooked, and their courses winding;
16 To deliver you from a woman strange from a foreign [woman] [who] words her she makes smooth.
to remove you far from the straight way, and to estrange you from a righteous purpose. [My] son, let not evil counsel overtake you,
17 Who leaves [the] close friend of youth her and [the] covenant of God her she forgets.
[of her] who has forsaken the instruction of her youth, and forgotten the covenant of God.
18 For she sank down to death house her and to [the] shades tracks her.
For she has fixed her house near death, and [guided] her wheels near Hades with the giants.
19 All [those who] go to her not they return! and not they reach [the] paths of life.
None that go by her shall return, neither shall they take hold of right paths, for they are not apprehended of the years of life.
20 So that you may walk in [the] way of good [people] and [the] paths of righteous [people] you will keep.
For had they gone in good paths, they would have found the paths of righteousness easy.
21 For upright [people] (they will dwell *L(bah)*) [the] land and blameless [people] they will remain in it.
For the upright shall dwell in the earth, and the holy shall be left behind in it.
22 And wicked [people] from [the] land they will be cut off and treacherous [people] they will be torn away from it.
The paths of the ungodly shall perish out of the earth, and transgressors shall be driven away from it.
