< Proverbs 2 >
1 son: child my if to take: recieve word my and commandment my to treasure with you
My son, if you accept my words and hide my commandments within you,
2 to/for to listen to/for wisdom ear your to stretch heart your to/for understanding
if you incline your ear to wisdom and direct your heart to understanding,
3 that if: except if: except to/for understanding to call: call out to/for understanding to give: cry out voice your
if you truly call out to insight and lift your voice to understanding,
4 if to seek her like/as silver: money and like/as treasure to search her
if you seek it like silver and search it out like hidden treasure,
5 then to understand fear LORD and knowledge God to find
then you will discern the fear of the LORD and discover the knowledge of God.
6 for LORD to give: give wisdom from lip his knowledge and understanding
For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.
7 (to treasure *Q(K)*) to/for upright wisdom shield to/for to go: walk integrity
He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk with integrity,
8 to/for to watch way justice and way: journey (pious his *Q(K)*) to keep: guard
to guard the paths of justice and protect the way of His saints.
9 then to understand righteousness and justice and uprightness all track good
Then you will discern righteousness and justice and equity—every good path.
10 for to come (in): come wisdom in/on/with heart your and knowledge to/for soul your be pleasant
For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will delight your soul.
11 plot to keep: guard upon you understanding to watch you
Discretion will watch over you, and understanding will guard you,
12 to/for to rescue you from way: conduct bad: evil from man: anyone to speak: speak perversity
to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perversity,
13 [the] to leave: forsake way uprightness to/for to go: walk in/on/with way: conduct darkness
from those who leave the straight paths to walk in the ways of darkness,
14 [the] glad to/for to make: do bad: evil to rejoice in/on/with perversity bad: evil
from those who enjoy doing evil and rejoice in the twistedness of evil,
15 which way their twisted and be devious in/on/with track their
whose paths are crooked and whose ways are devious.
16 to/for to rescue you from woman be a stranger from foreign word her to smooth
It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words
17 [the] to leave: forsake tame youth her and [obj] covenant God her to forget
who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.
18 for to sink to(wards) death house: home her and to(wards) shade track her
For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits.
19 all to come (in): come her not to return: return [emph?] and not to overtake way life
None who go to her return or negotiate the paths of life.
20 because to go: walk in/on/with way: conduct pleasant and way righteous to keep: obey
So you will follow in the ways of the good, and keep to the paths of the righteous.
21 for upright (to dwell *L(bah)*) land: country/planet and unblemished: blameless to remain in/on/with her
For the upright will inhabit the land, and the blameless will remain in it;
22 and wicked from land: country/planet to cut: eliminate and to act treacherously to pull from her
but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be uprooted.