Proverbs 2

1 My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you,

O son my if you will receive words my and commandments my you will treasure with you.

2 make your ears pay attention to wisdom and incline your heart to understanding.

To make attend to wisdom ear your you will incline heart your to understanding.

3 If you cry out for understanding and raise your voice for it,

That except to discernment you will call to understanding you will give voice your.

4 if you seek it like you would seek silver and search for understanding as you would seek hidden treasures,

If you will seek it like silver and like treasures you will search for it.

5 then you will understand the fear of Yahweh and you will find the knowledge of God.

Then you will discern [the] fear of Yahweh and [the] knowledge of God you will find.

6 For Yahweh gives wisdom, from his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

For Yahweh he gives wisdom from mouth his 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 stores up *Q(K)*) for upright [people] success a shield to [those who] walk of integrity.

8 he guards the paths of justice and he will preserve the way of those who are faithful to him.

To guard [the] paths of justice and [the] way of (faithful [people] his *Q(K)*) he will preserve.

9 Then you will understand righteousness, justice, and equity, and every good path.

Then you will understand righteousness and justice and uprightness every course of good.

10 For wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.

For it will come wisdom in heart your and knowledge to self your it will be pleasant.

11 Discretion will watch over you, understanding will guard you.

Discretion it will watch over you understanding it will preserve you.

12 They will rescue you from the way of evil, from those who speak perverse things,

To deliver you from a way evil from anyone [who] speaks perverse things.

13 who abandon the right paths and walk in the ways of darkness.

Those [who] leave paths of uprightness to walk in [the] ways of darkness.

14 They rejoice when they do evil and delight in the perversities of evil.

The [ones] joyful to do evil they exult in perverse things of evil.

15 They follow crooked paths, and using deception they hide their tracks.

Who paths their [are] twisted and [who are] crooked in tracks their.

16 Wisdom and discretion will save you from an adulterous woman, from an immoral woman and her flattering words.

To deliver you from a woman strange from a foreign [woman] [who] words her she makes smooth.

17 She forsakes the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.

Who leaves [the] close friend of youth her and [the] covenant of God her she forgets.

18 For her house leads down to death and her tracks will lead you to those in the grave.

For she sank down to death house her and to [the] shades tracks her.

19 All who go in to her will not return again and they will not find the paths of life.

All [those who] go to her not they return! and not they reach [the] paths of life.

20 So you will walk in the way of good people and follow the paths of righteous people.

So that you may walk in [the] way of good [people] and [the] paths of righteous [people] you will keep.

21 For those doing right will make a home in the land, and those with integrity will remain in it.

For upright [people] (they will dwell *L(bah)*) [the] land and blameless [people] they will remain in it.

22 But the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the faithless will be cut off from it.

And wicked [people] from [the] land they will be cut off and treacherous [people] they will be torn away from it.