Proverbs 2

1 [My] son, if you will receive the utterance of my commandment, and hide it with you;

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

2 your ear shall listen to wisdom; you shall also apply your heart to understanding, and shall apply it to the instruction of your son.

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

3 For it you shall call to wisdom, and utter your voice for understanding;

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

4 and if you shall seek it as silver, and search diligently for it as for treasures;

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

5 then shall you understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.

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

6 For the Lord gives wisdom; and from his presence [come] knowledge and understanding,

For Yahweh he gives wisdom from mouth his knowledge and understanding.

7 and he treasures up salvation for them that walk uprightly: he will protect their way;

(He stores up *QK) for upright [people] success a shield to [those who] walk of integrity.

8 that he may guard the righteous ways: and he will preserve the way of them that fear him.

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

9 Then shall you understand righteousness, and judgment; and shall direct all your course aright.

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

10 For if wisdom shall come into your understanding, and discernment shall seem pleasing to your soul,

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

11 good counsel shall guard you, and holy understanding shall keep you;

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

12 to deliver you from the evil way, and from the man that speaks nothing faithfully.

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

13 Alas [for those] who forsake right paths, to walk in ways of darkness;

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

14 who rejoice in evils, and delight in wicked perverseness;

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

15 whose paths are crooked, and their courses winding;

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

16 to remove you far from the straight way, and to estrange you from a righteous purpose. [My] son, let not evil counsel overtake you,

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

17 [of her] who has forsaken the instruction of her youth, and forgotten the covenant of God.

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

18 For she has fixed her house near death, and [guided] her wheels near Hades with the giants.

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

19 None that go by her shall return, neither shall they take hold of right paths, for they are not apprehended of the years of life.

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

20 For had they gone in good paths, they would have found the paths of righteousness easy.

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

21 For the upright shall dwell in the earth, and the holy shall be left behind in it.

For upright [people] they will dwell [the] land and blameless [people] they will remain in it.

22 The paths of the ungodly shall perish out of the earth, and transgressors shall be driven away from it.

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