Proverbs 2

2 My son, if thou dost accept my sayings, And my commands dost lay up with thee,

^2 ^To cause thine ear to attend to wisdom, Thou inclinest thy heart to understanding,

^3 ^For, if for intelligence thou callest, For understanding givest forth thy voice,

^4 ^If thou dost seek her as silver, And as hid treasures searchest for her,

^5 ^Then understandest thou fear of Jehovah, And knowledge of God thou findest.

^6 ^For Jehovah giveth wisdom, From His mouth knowledge and understanding.

^7 ^Even to lay up for the upright substance, A shield for those walking uprightly.

7And He treasures up stability for the straight, A shield to those walking blamelessly,

He layeth up tushiyyah (wise Torah counsel) for the yesharim (upright ones); He is a mogen (shield) to them that walk in blamelessness.

^8 ^To keep the paths of judgment, And the way of His saints He preserveth.

^9 ^Then understandest thou righteousness, And judgment, and uprightness -- every good path.

^10 ^For wisdom cometh into thy heart, And knowledge to thy soul is pleasant,

^11 ^Thoughtfulness doth watch over thee, Understanding doth keep thee,

^12 ^To deliver thee from an evil way, From any speaking froward things,

^13 ^Who are forsaking paths of uprightness, To walk in ways of darkness,

^14 ^Who are rejoicing to do evil, They delight in frowardness of the wicked,

^15 ^Whose paths [are] crooked, Yea, they are perverted in their ways.

^16 ^To deliver thee from the strange woman, From the stranger who hath made smooth her sayings,

^17 ^Who is forsaking the guide of her youth, And the covenant of her God hath forgotten.

^18 ^For her house hath inclined unto death, And unto Rephaim her paths.

^19 ^None going in unto her turn back, Nor do they reach the paths of life.

^20 ^That thou dost go in the way of the good, And the paths of the righteous dost keep.

^21 ^For the upright do inhabit the earth, And the perfect are left in it,

^22 ^And the wicked from the earth are cut off, And treacherous dealers plucked out of it!