Proverbs 2
1 My son, if thou dost accept my sayings, And my commands dost lay up with thee,
O son my if you will receive words my and commandments my you will treasure with you.
2 To cause thine ear to attend to wisdom, Thou inclinest thy heart to understanding,
To make attend to wisdom ear your you will incline heart your to understanding.
3 For, if for intelligence thou callest, For understanding givest forth thy voice,
That except to discernment you will call to understanding you will give voice your.
4 If thou dost seek her as silver, And as hid treasures searchest for her,
If you will seek it like silver and like treasures you will search for it.
5 Then understandest thou fear of Jehovah, And knowledge of God thou findest.
Then you will discern [the] fear of Yahweh and [the] knowledge of God you will find.
6 For Jehovah giveth wisdom, From His mouth knowledge and understanding.
For Yahweh he gives wisdom from mouth his knowledge and understanding.
7 Even to lay up for the upright substance, A shield for those walking uprightly.
(He stores up *Q(K)*) for upright [people] success a shield to [those who] walk of integrity.
8 To keep the paths of judgment, And the way of His saints He preserveth.
To guard [the] paths of justice and [the] way of (faithful [people] his *Q(K)*) he will preserve.
9 Then understandest thou righteousness, And judgment, and uprightness — every good path.
Then you will understand righteousness and justice and uprightness every course of good.
10 For wisdom cometh into thy heart, And knowledge to thy soul is pleasant,
For it will come wisdom in heart your and knowledge to self your it will be pleasant.
11 Thoughtfulness doth watch over thee, Understanding doth keep thee,
Discretion it will watch over you understanding it will preserve you.
12 To deliver thee from an evil way, From any speaking froward things,
To deliver you from a way evil from anyone [who] speaks perverse things.
13 Who are forsaking paths of uprightness, To walk in ways of darkness,
Those [who] leave paths of uprightness to walk in [the] ways of darkness.
14 Who are rejoicing to do evil, They delight in frowardness of the wicked,
The [ones] joyful to do evil they exult in perverse things of evil.
15 Whose paths [are] crooked, Yea, they are perverted in their ways.
Who paths their [are] twisted and [who are] crooked in tracks their.
16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, From the stranger who hath made smooth her sayings,
To deliver you from a woman strange from a foreign [woman] [who] words her she makes smooth.
17 Who is forsaking the guide of her youth, And the covenant of her God hath forgotten.
Who leaves [the] close friend of youth her and [the] covenant of God her she forgets.
18 For her house hath inclined unto death, And unto Rephaim her paths.
For she sank down to death house her and to [the] shades tracks her.
19 None going in unto her turn back, Nor do they reach the paths of life.
All [those who] go to her not they return! and not they reach [the] paths of life.
20 That thou dost go in the way of the good, And the paths of the righteous dost keep.
So that you may walk in [the] way of good [people] and [the] paths of righteous [people] you will keep.
21 For the upright do inhabit the earth, And the perfect are left in it,
For upright [people] (they will dwell *L(bah)*) [the] land and blameless [people] they will remain in it.
22 And the wicked from the earth are cut off, And treacherous dealers plucked out of it!
And wicked [people] from [the] land they will be cut off and treacherous [people] they will be torn away from it.
