Proverbs 2
1 My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you,
My son, if thou dost accept my sayings, And my commands dost lay up with thee,
2 make your ears pay attention to wisdom and incline your heart to understanding.
To cause thine ear to attend to wisdom, Thou inclinest thy heart to understanding,
3 If you cry out for understanding and raise your voice for it,
For, if for intelligence thou callest, For understanding givest forth thy voice,
4 if you seek it like you would seek silver and search for understanding as you would seek hidden treasures,
If thou dost seek her as silver, And as hid treasures searchest for her,
5 then you will understand the fear of Yahweh and you will find the knowledge of God.
Then understandest thou fear of Jehovah, And knowledge of God thou findest.
6 For Yahweh gives wisdom, from his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
For Jehovah giveth wisdom, From His mouth knowledge and understanding.
7 He stores up sound wisdom for those who please him, he is a shield for those who walk in integrity,
Even to lay up for the upright substance, A shield for those walking uprightly.
8 he guards the paths of justice and he will preserve the way of those who are faithful to him.
To keep the paths of judgment, And the way of His saints He preserveth.
9 Then you will understand righteousness, justice, and equity, and every good path.
Then understandest thou righteousness, And judgment, and uprightness — every good path.
10 For wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
For wisdom cometh into thy heart, And knowledge to thy soul is pleasant,
11 Discretion will watch over you, understanding will guard you.
Thoughtfulness doth watch over thee, Understanding doth keep thee,
12 They will rescue you from the way of evil, from those who speak perverse things,
To deliver thee from an evil way, From any speaking froward things,
13 who abandon the right paths and walk in the ways of darkness.
Who are forsaking paths of uprightness, To walk in ways of darkness,
14 They rejoice when they do evil and delight in the perversities of evil.
Who are rejoicing to do evil, They delight in frowardness of the wicked,
15 They follow crooked paths, and using deception they hide their tracks.
Whose paths [are] crooked, Yea, they are perverted in their ways.
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, From the stranger who hath made smooth her sayings,
17 She forsakes the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.
Who is forsaking the guide of her youth, And the covenant of her God hath forgotten.
18 For her house leads down to death and her tracks will lead you to those in the grave.
For her house hath inclined unto death, And unto Rephaim her paths.
19 All who go in to her will not return again and they will not find the paths of life.
None going in unto her turn back, Nor do they reach the paths of life.
20 So you will walk in the way of good people and follow the paths of righteous people.
That thou dost go in the way of the good, And the paths of the righteous dost keep.
21 For those doing right will make a home in the land, and those with integrity will remain in it.
For the upright do inhabit the earth, And the perfect are left in it,
22 But the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the faithless will be cut off from it.
And the wicked from the earth are cut off, And treacherous dealers plucked out of it!
