Proverbs 2

1 My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and lay up my commandments with thee;

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

2 So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;

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

3 Yea, if thou cry after discernment, and lift up thy voice for understanding;

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

4 If thou seek her as silver, and search for her as for hid treasures;

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

5 Then shalt thou 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 giveth wisdom; out of his mouth [cometh] knowledge and understanding:

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

7 He layeth up sound wisdom for the upright, [he is] a shield to them that 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 judgment, and preserve the way of his saints.

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

9 Then shalt thou understand righteousness and judgment, and equity, [yea], every good path.

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

10 For wisdom shall enter into thine heart, and knowledge shall be pleasant unto thy soul;

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

11 Discretion shall watch over thee, understanding shall keep thee:

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

12 To deliver thee from the way of evil, from the men that speak froward 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 frowardness of evil;

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

15 Who are crooked in their ways, and perverse in their paths:

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

16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;

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

17 Which forsaketh the friend of her youth, and forgetteth 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 inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead:

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

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

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

20 That thou mayest 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 shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.

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

22 But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, and they that deal treacherously shall be rooted out of it.

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