< Proverbs 2 >

1 son: child my if to take: recieve word my and commandment my to treasure with you
My son, listen to what I say, and [consider my instructions to be as valuable as] [MET] a treasure.
2 to/for to listen to/for wisdom ear your to stretch heart your to/for understanding
Pay attention to wisdom and try hard to understand it.
3 that if: except if: except to/for understanding to call: call out to/for understanding to give: cry out voice your
Call out [to God] to get insight; plead with him to help you to understand more [of what he wants you to know].
4 if to seek her like/as silver: money and like/as treasure to search her
Search [eagerly] for wisdom, like you would search for silver, like you would search for a treasure that someone has hidden.
5 then to understand fear LORD and knowledge God to find
If you do that, you will understand how to revere Yahweh, and you will succeed in knowing God.
6 for LORD to give: give wisdom from lip his knowledge and understanding
Yahweh is the one who gives us wisdom. He is the one who tells us things that we need to know and understand.
7 (to treasure *Q(K)*) to/for upright wisdom shield to/for to go: walk integrity
He gives good advice to those who conduct their lives as they should. He protects [MET] those who do what is right.
8 to/for to watch way justice and way: journey (pious his *Q(K)*) to keep: guard
He guards those who act justly/fairly [toward others], and he watches over those who are faithful/loyal [to him].
9 then to understand righteousness and justice and uprightness all track good
[If you ask God for wisdom], you will understand what is right and just [DOU] [to do], and [you will know] the right way to conduct your life,
10 for to come (in): come wisdom in/on/with heart your and knowledge to/for soul your be pleasant
because you will be wise in your inner being; and knowing [what God wants you to know] will cause you to be joyful.
11 plot to keep: guard upon you understanding to watch you
If you know [PRS] how to choose what is right to do and if you understand [what God wants] you to do, God will protect you and guard you and keep you safe.
12 to/for to rescue you from way: conduct bad: evil from man: anyone to speak: speak perversity
If you are wise [PRS], you will not do what evil people do, and you will not [believe what] deceitful people say.
13 [the] to leave: forsake way uprightness to/for to go: walk in/on/with way: conduct darkness
Deceitful people have stopped acting fairly/justly [toward others] and (walk on dark and evil paths/do what evil people do) [MET].
14 [the] glad to/for to make: do bad: evil to rejoice in/on/with perversity bad: evil
They enjoy doing what is wrong; they like to do what is evil and to deceive [people].
15 which way their twisted and be devious in/on/with track their
They (walk on crooked paths/always deceive others) and are always dishonest.
16 to/for to rescue you from woman be a stranger from foreign word her to smooth
If you are wise [PRS], you will [also] be saved from (immoral women/prostitutes); you will not pay attention when adulterous women try to (seduce/entice you by what they say.)
17 [the] to leave: forsake tame youth her and [obj] covenant God her to forget
Those women have left the husbands whom they married when they were young; they have disregarded the solemn promise they made to God [not to commit adultery].
18 for to sink to(wards) death house: home her and to(wards) shade track her
If you go into houses of women who are like that, you will die [when you are still young]; the road [to their houses] leads to hell. (questioned)
19 all to come (in): come her not to return: return [emph?] and not to overtake way life
No man who (visits/sleeps with) a woman like that will again [live harmoniously with his family]. He will never have a [happy] life again.
20 because to go: walk in/on/with way: conduct pleasant and way righteous to keep: obey
If [you are wise], you should behave like good men behave. You should (stay on the paths that righteous [people] walk on/do what godly people do) [MET],
21 for upright (to dwell *L(bah)*) land: country/planet and unblemished: blameless to remain in/on/with her
because only godly people will live in this land [and receive God’s blessings]; [only] those who have not done wrong will stay here [for a long time].
22 and wicked from land: country/planet to cut: eliminate and to act treacherously to pull from her
Wicked [people] will be expelled from this land, and [people] who are not trustworthy will be thrown {God will throw them} out of it.

< Proverbs 2 >