Proverbs 2
JPS Tanakh (Jewish Publication Society, 1917)
Berean Standard Bible
1My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and lay up my commandments with thee;
1My son, if you accept my words and hide my commandments within you,
2So that thou make thine ear attend unto wisdom, and thy heart incline to discernment;
2if you incline your ear to wisdom and direct your heart to understanding,
3Yea, if thou call for understanding, and lift up thy voice for discernment;
3if you truly call out to insight and lift your voice to understanding,
4If thou seek her as silver, and search for her as for hid treasures;
4if you seek it like silver and search it out like hidden treasure,
5Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.
5then you will discern the fear of the LORD and discover the knowledge of God.
6For the LORD giveth wisdom, out of His mouth cometh knowledge and discernment;
6For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.
7He layeth up sound wisdom for the upright, He is a shield to them that walk in integrity;
7He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk with integrity,
8That He may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of His godly ones.
8to guard the paths of justice and protect the way of His saints.
9Then shalt thou understand righteousness and justice, and equity, yea, every good path.
9Then you will discern righteousness and justice and equity—every good path.
10For wisdom shall enter into thy heart, and knowledge shall be pleasant unto thy soul;
10For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will delight your soul.
11Discretion shall watch over thee, discernment shall guard thee;
11Discretion will watch over you, and understanding will guard you,
12To deliver thee from the way of evil, from the men that speak froward things;
12to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perversity,
13Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
13from those who leave the straight paths to walk in the ways of darkness,
14Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of evil;
14from those who enjoy doing evil and rejoice in the twistedness of evil,
15Who are crooked in their ways, and perverse in their paths;
15whose paths are crooked and whose ways are devious.
16To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the alien woman that maketh smooth her words;
16It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words
17That forsaketh the lord of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
17who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.
18For her house sinketh down unto death, and her paths unto the shades;
18For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits.
19None that go unto her return, neither do they attain unto the paths of life;
19None who go to her return or negotiate the paths of life.
20That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.
20So you will follow in the ways of the good, and keep to the paths of the righteous.
21For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the whole-hearted shall remain in it.
21For the upright will inhabit the land, and the blameless will remain in it;
22But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, and the faithless shall be plucked up out of it.
22but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be uprooted.
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