Proverbs 2

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

My son, if you will receive my words, and hide my commandments with you;

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

So that you incline your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;

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

Yes, if you cry after knowledge, and lift up your voice for understanding;

4 if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures;

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

5 then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and find the knowledge of God.

Then shall you understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.

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

For the LORD gives wisdom: out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

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

He lays up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.

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

He keeps the paths of judgment, and preserves the way of his saints.

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

Then shall you understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yes, every good path.

10 For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.

When wisdom enters into your heart, and knowledge is pleasant to your soul;

11 Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,

Discretion shall preserve you, understanding shall keep you:

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

To deliver you from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaks fraudulent things;

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

Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;

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

Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;

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

Whose ways are crooked, and they fraudulent in their paths:

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

To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flatters with her words;

17 who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God;

Which forsakes the guide of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God.

18 for her house leads down to death, her paths to the departed spirits.

For her house inclines to death, and her paths to the dead.

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

None that go to her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.

20 Therefore walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

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

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

For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.

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

But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.