Proverbs 2
1 O son my if you will receive words my and commandments my you will treasure with you.
My son, if thou wouldst but accept my words, and treasure up my commandments with thee;
2 To make attend to wisdom ear your you will incline heart your to understanding.
To let thy ear listen unto wisdom: [if] thou wouldst incline thy heart to understanding.
3 That except to discernment you will call to understanding you will give voice your.
For if thou wilt call after intelligence; if after understanding thou wilt lift up thy voice;
4 If you will seek it like silver and like treasures you will search for it.
If thou wilt seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures:
5 Then you will discern [the] fear of Yahweh and [the] knowledge of God you will find.
Then wilt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and the knowledge of God wilt thou find.
6 For Yahweh he gives wisdom from mouth his knowledge and understanding.
For the Lord giveth wisdom: out of his mouth [come] knowledge and understanding.
7 (He stores up *Q(K)*) for upright [people] success a shield to [those who] walk of integrity.
He treasureth up sound wisdom for the righteous, as a shield to those that walk in integrity:
8 To guard [the] paths of justice and [the] way of (faithful [people] his *Q(K)*) he will preserve.
That men may keep the paths of justice; and the way of his pious servants doth he guard.
9 Then you will understand righteousness and justice and uprightness every course of good.
Then wilt thou understand righteousness, and justice, and equity: yea, every track of goodness.
10 For it will come wisdom in heart your and knowledge to self your it will be pleasant.
For wisdom will enter thy heart, and knowledge will be pleasant unto thy soul;
11 Discretion it will watch over you understanding it will preserve you.
Discretion will watch over thee, understanding will keep thee;
12 To deliver you from a way evil from anyone [who] speaks perverse things.
To deliver thee from the way of the bad, from the man that speaketh perverse things;
13 Those [who] leave paths of uprightness to walk in [the] ways of darkness.
[From those] 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, who are delighted in the perverseness of the bad;
15 Who paths their [are] twisted and [who are] crooked in tracks their.
Who as regardeth their paths are crooked, and froward in their tracks.
16 To deliver you from a woman strange from a foreign [woman] [who] words her she makes smooth.
To deliver thee from the adulteress, from the alien woman that useth flattering speeches;
17 Who leaves [the] close friend of youth her and [the] covenant of God her she forgets.
That forsaketh the friend of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
18 For she sank down to death house her and to [the] shades tracks her.
For she sinketh unto death—her house, and unto the departed [lead] her tracks.
19 All [those who] go to her not they return! and not they reach [the] paths of life.
All that come unto her return not again, and they will not reach 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.
In order that thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and observe 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 will dwell on the earth, and the perfect will be left remaining on 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 will be cut off from the earth, and the treacherous shall be plucked up therefrom.
