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 store up my commandments within you;

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

So as to turn 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 call out for discernment, 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 hidden treasures:

5 Then you will discern [the] fear of Yahweh and [the] knowledge of God you will find.

then you will 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 upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity;

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

that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his faithful ones.

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

Then you will understand righteousness and justice, equity and every good path.

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

For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.

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

Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,

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

to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things;

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

who forsake 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 perverseness of evil;

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

who are crooked in their ways, and wayward 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 foreigner who flatters with her words;

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

who forsakes the friend 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 leads down to death, her paths to the dead.

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

None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to 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 will dwell in the land. The perfect will 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 will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be uprooted out of it.