Proverbs 2

1 O son my if you will receive words my and commandments my you will treasure with you.

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

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

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

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

6 For Yahweh he gives wisdom from mouth his knowledge and understanding.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

19 All [those who] go to her not they return! and not they 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.

21 For upright [people] (they will dwell *L(bah)*) [the] land and blameless [people] they 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.