Proverbs 2
1 My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you,
My son, if thou wilt receive my words, And lay up my commandments with thee;
2 make your ears pay attention to wisdom and incline your heart to understanding.
So as to incline thine ear unto wisdom, And apply thy heart to understanding;
3 If you cry out for understanding and raise your voice for it,
Yea, if thou cry after discernment, And lift up thy voice for understanding;
4 if you seek it like you would seek silver and search for understanding as you would seek hidden treasures,
If thou seek her as silver, And search for her as for hid treasures:
5 then you will understand the fear of Yahweh and you will find the knowledge of God.
Then shalt thou understand the fear of Jehovah, And find the knowledge of God.
6 For Yahweh gives wisdom, from his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
For Jehovah giveth wisdom; Out of his mouth [cometh] knowledge and understanding:
7 He stores up sound wisdom for those who please him, he is a shield for those who walk in integrity,
He layeth up sound wisdom for the upright; [He is] a shield to them that walk in integrity;
8 he guards the paths of justice and he will preserve the way of those who are faithful to him.
That he may guard the paths of justice, And preserve the way of his saints.
9 Then you will understand righteousness, justice, and equity, and every good path.
Then shalt thou understand righteousness and justice, And equity, [yea], every good path.
10 For wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
For wisdom shall enter into thy heart, And knowledge shall be pleasant unto thy soul;
11 Discretion will watch over you, understanding will guard you.
Discretion shall watch over thee; Understanding shall keep thee:
12 They will rescue you from the way of evil, from those who speak perverse things,
To deliver thee from the way of evil, From the men that speak perverse things;
13 who abandon the right paths and walk in the ways of darkness.
Who forsake the paths of uprightness, To walk in the ways of darkness;
14 They rejoice when they do evil and delight in the perversities of evil.
Who rejoice to do evil, And delight in the perverseness of evil;
15 They follow crooked paths, and using deception they hide their tracks.
Who are crooked in their ways, And wayward in their paths:
16 Wisdom and discretion will save you from an adulterous woman, from an immoral woman and her flattering words.
To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words;
17 She forsakes the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.
That forsaketh the friend of her youth, And forgetteth the covenant of her God:
18 For her house leads down to death and her tracks will lead you to those in the grave.
For her house inclineth unto death, And her paths unto the dead;
19 All who go in to her will not return again and they will not find the paths of life.
None that go unto her return again, Neither do they attain unto the paths of life:
20 So you will walk in the way of good people and follow the paths of righteous people.
That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, And keep the paths of the righteous.
21 For those doing right will make a home in the land, and those with integrity will remain in it.
For the upright shall dwell in the land, And the perfect shall remain in it.
22 But the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the faithless will be cut off from it.
But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, And the treacherous shall be rooted out of it.
