Proverbs 2

1 My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you;

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

2 So as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;

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

3 Yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;

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

4 If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for 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 Jehovah, and find the knowledge of God.

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

6 For Jehovah gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

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

7 He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity;

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

8 that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his faithful ones.

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

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

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

10 For wisdom will enter into your heart. 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 keep you,

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

12 to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things;

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

13 who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;

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

14 who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil;

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

15 who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths:

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

16 To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;

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

17 who forsakes the friend 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, her paths to the dead.

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

19 None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life:

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

20 that you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

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

21 For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it.

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

22 But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be uprooted out of it.

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