< Proverbs 2 >
1 son: child my if to take: recieve word my and commandment my to treasure with you
My son, if thou receivest my words, and layest up my commandments with thee,
2 to/for to listen to/for wisdom ear your to stretch heart your to/for understanding
so that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom [and] thou apply thy 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
yea, if thou criest after discernment [and] liftest up thy voice to understanding;
4 if to seek her like/as silver: money and like/as treasure to search her
if thou seekest her as silver and searchest for her as for hidden treasures:
5 then to understand fear LORD and knowledge God to find
then shalt thou understand the fear of Jehovah, and find the knowledge of God.
6 for LORD to give: give wisdom from lip his knowledge and understanding
For Jehovah giveth wisdom; out of his mouth [come] knowledge and understanding.
7 (to treasure *Q(K)*) to/for upright wisdom shield to/for to go: walk integrity
He layeth up sound wisdom for the upright; [he] is a shield to them that walk in integrity;
8 to/for to watch way justice and way: journey (pious his *Q(K)*) to keep: guard
guarding the paths of just judgment and keeping the way of his godly ones.
9 then to understand righteousness and justice and uprightness all track good
Then shalt thou understand righteousness and judgment 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
When wisdom entereth into thy heart and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul,
11 plot to keep: guard upon you understanding to watch you
discretion shall keep thee, understanding shall preserve thee:
12 to/for to rescue you from way: conduct bad: evil from man: anyone to speak: speak perversity
To deliver thee from the way of evil, from the man that speaketh froward things;
13 [the] to leave: forsake way uprightness to/for to go: walk in/on/with way: conduct darkness
[from those] who leave the paths of uprightness, 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
who rejoice to do evil, [and] delight in the frowardness of evil;
15 which way their twisted and be devious in/on/with track their
whose paths are crooked, and who are perverted in their course:
16 to/for to rescue you from woman be a stranger from foreign word her to smooth
To deliver thee from the strange woman, from the stranger who flattereth with her words;
17 [the] to leave: forsake tame youth her and [obj] covenant God her to forget
who forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God;
18 for to sink to(wards) death house: home her and to(wards) shade track her
— for her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead;
19 all to come (in): come her not to return: return [emph?] and not to overtake way life
none that go unto her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life:
20 because to go: walk in/on/with way: conduct pleasant and way righteous to keep: obey
— that thou mayest walk in the way of the good, and keep 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 shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it;
22 and wicked from land: country/planet to cut: eliminate and to act treacherously to pull from her
but the wicked shall be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful shall be plucked up out of it.