< Proverbs 2 >
1 son: child my if to take: recieve word my and commandment my to treasure with you
[My] son, if you will receive the utterance of my commandment, and hide it with you;
2 to/for to listen to/for wisdom ear your to stretch heart your to/for understanding
your ear shall listen to wisdom; you shall also apply your heart to understanding, and shall apply it to the instruction of your son.
3 that if: except if: except to/for understanding to call: call out to/for understanding to give: cry out voice your
For it you shall call to wisdom, and utter your voice for understanding;
4 if to seek her like/as silver: money and like/as treasure to search her
and if you shall seek it as silver, and search diligently for it as for treasures;
5 then to understand fear LORD and knowledge God to find
then shall you understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.
6 for LORD to give: give wisdom from lip his knowledge and understanding
For the Lord gives wisdom; and from his presence [come] knowledge and understanding,
7 (to treasure *Q(K)*) to/for upright wisdom shield to/for to go: walk integrity
and he treasures up salvation for them that walk uprightly: he will protect their way;
8 to/for to watch way justice and way: journey (pious his *Q(K)*) to keep: guard
that he may guard the righteous ways: and he will preserve the way of them that fear him.
9 then to understand righteousness and justice and uprightness all track good
Then shall you understand righteousness, and judgment; and shall direct all your course aright.
10 for to come (in): come wisdom in/on/with heart your and knowledge to/for soul your be pleasant
For if wisdom shall come into your understanding, and discernment shall seem pleasing to your soul,
11 plot to keep: guard upon you understanding to watch you
good counsel shall guard you, and holy understanding shall keep you;
12 to/for to rescue you from way: conduct bad: evil from man: anyone to speak: speak perversity
to deliver you from the evil way, and from the man that speaks nothing faithfully.
13 [the] to leave: forsake way uprightness to/for to go: walk in/on/with way: conduct darkness
Alas [for those] who forsake right paths, to walk in ways of darkness;
14 [the] glad to/for to make: do bad: evil to rejoice in/on/with perversity bad: evil
who rejoice in evils, and delight in wicked perverseness;
15 which way their twisted and be devious in/on/with track their
whose paths are crooked, and their courses winding;
16 to/for to rescue you from woman be a stranger from foreign word her to smooth
to remove you far from the straight way, and to estrange you from a righteous purpose. [My] son, let not evil counsel overtake you,
17 [the] to leave: forsake tame youth her and [obj] covenant God her to forget
[of her] who has forsaken the instruction of her youth, and forgotten the covenant of God.
18 for to sink to(wards) death house: home her and to(wards) shade track her
For she has fixed her house near death, and [guided] her wheels near Hades with the giants.
19 all to come (in): come her not to return: return [emph?] and not to overtake way life
None that go by her shall return, neither shall they take hold of right paths, for they are not apprehended of the years of life.
20 because to go: walk in/on/with way: conduct pleasant and way righteous to keep: obey
For had they gone in good paths, they would have found the paths of righteousness easy.
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 earth, and the holy shall be left behind in it.
22 and wicked from land: country/planet to cut: eliminate and to act treacherously to pull from her
The paths of the ungodly shall perish out of the earth, and transgressors shall be driven away from it.