Proverbs 2

1My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and wilt hide my commandments with thee,

1My son, if thou receivest my words, and layest up my commandments with thee,

2That thy ear may hearken to wisdom: incline thy heart to know prudence.

2so that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom [and] thou apply thy heart to understanding;

3For if thou shalt call for wisdom, and incline thy heart to prudence:

3yea, if thou criest after discernment [and] liftest up thy voice to understanding;

4If thou shalt seek her as money, and shalt dig for her as for a treasure:

4if thou seekest her as silver and searchest for her as for hidden treasures:

5Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and shalt find the knowledge of God:

5then shalt thou understand the fear of Jehovah, and find the knowledge ofGod.

6Because the Lord giveth wisdom: and out of his mouth cometh prudence and knowledge.

6For Jehovah giveth wisdom; out of his mouth [come] knowledge and understanding.

7He wilt keep the salvation of the righteous, and protect them that walk in simplicity,

7He layeth up sound wisdom for the upright; [he] is a shield to them that walk in integrity;

8Keeping the paths of justice, and guarding the ways of saints.

8guarding the paths of just judgment and keeping the way of hisgodly ones.

9Then shalt thou understand justice, and judgment, and equity, and every good path.

9Then shalt thou understand righteousness and judgment and equity: every good path.

10If wisdom shall enter into thy heart, and knowledge please thy soul:

10When wisdom entereth into thy heart and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul,

11Counsel shall keep thee, and prudence shall preserve thee,

11discretion shall keep thee, understanding shall preserve thee:

12That thou mayst be delivered from the evil way, and from the man that speaketh perverse things:

12To deliver thee from the way of evil, from the man that speaketh froward things;

13Who leave the right way, and walk by dark ways:

13[from those] who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;

14Who are glad when they have done evil, and rejoice in the most wicked things:

14who rejoice to do evil, [and] delight in the frowardness of evil;

15Whose ways are perverse, and their steps infamous.

15whose paths are crooked, and who are perverted in their course:

16That thou mayst be delivered from the strange woman, and from the stranger, who softeneth her words;

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

17And forsaketh the guide of her youth,

17who forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of herGod;

18And hath forgotten the covenant of her God: for her house inclineth unto death, and her paths to hell.

18— for her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead;

19None that go in unto her, shall return again, neither shall they take hold of the paths of life.

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

20That thou mayst walk in a good way: and mayst keep the paths of the just.

20— that thou mayest walk in the way of the good, and keep the paths of the righteous.

21For they that are upright, shall dwell in the earth; and the simple shall continue in it.

21For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it;

22But the wicked shall be destroyed from the earth: and they that do unjustly, shall be taken away from it.

22but the wicked shall be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful shall be plucked up out of it.