Proverbs 2
1 My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you,
My son, if thou wouldst but accept my words, and treasure up my commandments with thee;
2 make your ears pay attention to wisdom and incline your heart to understanding.
To let thy ear listen unto wisdom: [if] thou wouldst incline thy heart to understanding.
3 If you cry out for understanding and raise your voice for it,
For if thou wilt call after intelligence; if after understanding thou wilt lift up thy voice;
4 if you seek it like you would seek silver and search for understanding as you would seek hidden treasures,
If thou wilt seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures:
5 then you will understand the fear of Yahweh and you will find the knowledge of God.
Then wilt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and the knowledge of God wilt thou find.
6 For Yahweh gives wisdom, from his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
For the Lord giveth wisdom: out of his mouth [come] 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 treasureth up sound wisdom for the righteous, as a shield to those 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 men may keep the paths of justice; and the way of his pious servants doth he guard.
9 Then you will understand righteousness, justice, and equity, and every good path.
Then wilt thou understand righteousness, and justice, and equity: yea, every track of goodness.
10 For wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
For wisdom will enter thy heart, and knowledge will be pleasant unto thy soul;
11 Discretion will watch over you, understanding will guard you.
Discretion will watch over thee, understanding will 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 the bad, from the man that speaketh perverse things;
13 who abandon the right paths and walk in the ways of darkness.
[From those] who leave 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, who are delighted in the perverseness of the bad;
15 They follow crooked paths, and using deception they hide their tracks.
Who as regardeth their paths are crooked, and froward in their tracks.
16 Wisdom and discretion will save you from an adulterous woman, from an immoral woman and her flattering words.
To deliver thee from the adulteress, from the alien woman that useth flattering speeches;
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 she sinketh unto death—her house, and unto the departed [lead] her tracks.
19 All who go in to her will not return again and they will not find the paths of life.
All that come unto her return not again, and they will not reach the paths of life.
20 So you will walk in the way of good people and follow the paths of righteous people.
In order that thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and observe 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 will dwell on the earth, and the perfect will be left remaining on it.
22 But the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the faithless will be cut off from it.
But the wicked will be cut off from the earth, and the treacherous shall be plucked up therefrom.
