| Prov. 2:1 |
My son, if you receive my words / And treasure up my commandments within you, |
| Prov. 2:2 |
Making your ear attentive to wisdom / And inclining your heart to understanding; |
| Prov. 2:3 |
Indeed, if you cry out for discernment / And lift up your voice for understanding; |
| Prov. 2:4 |
If you seek her like silver / And search for her like hidden treasures, |
| Prov. 2:5 |
Then you will understand the fear of Jehovah / And find the knowledge of God. |
| Prov. 2:6 |
For Jehovah gives wisdom; / From His mouth [come] knowledge and understanding; |
| Prov. 2:7 |
He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; / [He is] a shield to those who walk in integrity, |
| Prov. 2:8 |
Guarding the paths of justice / And keeping the way of His faithful ones. |
| Prov. 2:9 |
Then you will understand righteousness and justice / And equity, [indeed,] every good path. |
| Prov. 2:10 |
For wisdom will enter your heart, / And knowledge will be pleasant to your soul; |
| Prov. 2:11 |
Discretion will watch over you; / Understanding will keep you: |
| Prov. 2:12 |
To deliver you from the way of evil, / From the man who speaks perverse things, |
| Prov. 2:13 |
[From those] who forsake the paths of uprightness / To walk in the ways of darkness, |
| Prov. 2:14 |
Who rejoice in doing evil / [And] delight in the perverseness of evil, |
| Prov. 2:15 |
Whose paths are crooked, / And who are devious in their ways; |
| Prov. 2:16 |
To deliver you from the strange woman, / From the adulteress who flatters with her words, |
| Prov. 2:17 |
Who forsakes the companion of her youth / And forgets the covenant of her God; |
| Prov. 2:18 |
For her house sinks down to death, / And her paths [lead] to the dead; |
| Prov. 2:19 |
None who go to her [ever] return, / Nor do they attain to the paths of life; |
| Prov. 2:20 |
That you may walk in the way of good men / And keep the paths of the righteous; |
| Prov. 2:21 |
For the upright will dwell in the land, / And the perfect will remain in it; |
| Prov. 2:22 |
But the wicked will be cut off from the land, / And the treacherous will be uprooted from it. |