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 my words, and hide my commandments with you;

2 To make attend to wisdom ear your you will incline heart your to understanding.

So that you incline your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;

3 That except to discernment you will call to understanding you will give voice your.

Yes, if you cry after knowledge, and lift up your voice for understanding;

4 If you will seek it like silver and like treasures you will search for it.

If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hid 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: out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

7 (He stores up *Q(K)*) for upright [people] success a shield to [those who] walk of integrity.

He lays up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.

8 To guard [the] paths of justice and [the] way of (faithful [people] his *Q(K)*) he will preserve.

He keeps the paths of judgment, and preserves the way of his saints.

9 Then you will understand righteousness and justice and uprightness every course of good.

Then shall you understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yes, every good path.

10 For it will come wisdom in heart your and knowledge to self your it will be pleasant.

When wisdom enters into your heart, and knowledge is pleasant to your soul;

11 Discretion it will watch over you understanding it will preserve you.

Discretion shall preserve you, understanding shall keep you:

12 To deliver you from a way evil from anyone [who] speaks perverse things.

To deliver you from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaks fraudulent things;

13 Those [who] leave paths of uprightness to walk in [the] ways of darkness.

Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;

14 The [ones] joyful to do evil they exult in perverse things of evil.

Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;

15 Who paths their [are] twisted and [who are] crooked in tracks their.

Whose ways are crooked, and they fraudulent in their paths:

16 To deliver you from a woman strange from a foreign [woman] [who] words her she makes smooth.

To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flatters with her words;

17 Who leaves [the] close friend of youth her and [the] covenant of God her she forgets.

Which forsakes the guide of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God.

18 For she sank down to death house her and to [the] shades tracks her.

For her house inclines to death, and her paths to the dead.

19 All [those who] go to her not they return! and not they reach [the] paths of life.

None that go to her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.

20 So that you may walk in [the] way of good [people] and [the] paths of righteous [people] you will keep.

That you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

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 land, and the perfect shall remain in it.

22 And wicked [people] from [the] land they will be cut off and treacherous [people] they will be torn away from it.

But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.