Proverbs 2

1 My son, if thou dost accept my sayings, And my commands dost lay up with thee,YLT — Proverbs 2:1

2 To cause thine ear to attend to wisdom, Thou inclinest thy heart to understanding,YLT — Proverbs 2:2

3 For, if for intelligence thou callest, For understanding givest forth thy voice,YLT — Proverbs 2:3

4 If thou dost seek her as silver, And as hid treasures searchest for her,YLT — Proverbs 2:4

5 Then understandest thou fear of Jehovah, And knowledge of God thou findest.YLT — Proverbs 2:5

6 For Jehovah giveth wisdom, From His mouth knowledge and understanding.YLT — Proverbs 2:6

7 Even to lay up for the upright substance, A shield for those walking uprightly.YLT — Proverbs 2:7

8 To keep the paths of judgment, And the way of His saints He preserveth.YLT — Proverbs 2:8

9 Then understandest thou righteousness, And judgment, and uprightness — every good path.YLT — Proverbs 2:9

10 For wisdom cometh into thy heart, And knowledge to thy soul is pleasant,YLT — Proverbs 2:10

11 Thoughtfulness doth watch over thee, Understanding doth keep thee,YLT — Proverbs 2:11

12 To deliver thee from an evil way, From any speaking froward things,YLT — Proverbs 2:12

13 Who are forsaking paths of uprightness, To walk in ways of darkness,YLT — Proverbs 2:13

14 Who are rejoicing to do evil, They delight in frowardness of the wicked,YLT — Proverbs 2:14

15 Whose paths [are] crooked, Yea, they are perverted in their ways.YLT — Proverbs 2:15

16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, From the stranger who hath made smooth her sayings,YLT — Proverbs 2:16

17 Who is forsaking the guide of her youth, And the covenant of her God hath forgotten.YLT — Proverbs 2:17

18 For her house hath inclined unto death, And unto Rephaim her paths.YLT — Proverbs 2:18

19 None going in unto her turn back, Nor do they reach the paths of life.YLT — Proverbs 2:19

20 That thou dost go in the way of the good, And the paths of the righteous dost keep.YLT — Proverbs 2:20

21 For the upright do inhabit the earth, And the perfect are left in it,YLT — Proverbs 2:21

22 And the wicked from the earth are cut off, And treacherous dealers plucked out of it!YLT — Proverbs 2:22