Proverbs 2

CLV(i) 1 My son, if you take my words And store up my instructions within you, 2 Attending with your ear to wisdom, And you stretch out your heart to comprehension, 3 Indeed if you call out for understanding, And you lift up your voice for comprehension, 4 If you seek it as for silver And search for it as for buried treasures, 5 Then you shall understand the fear of Yahweh, And you shall find the knowledge of God." 6 For Yahweh Himself gives wisdom; From His mouth come knowledge and comprehension; 7 He stores up sagacity for the upright, A shield for those walking with integrity, 8 So as to preserve the paths of judgment, And so He may guard the way of His benign ones." 9 Then you shall understand righteousness and right judgment, And you shall be upright in every good route;" 10 For wisdom shall come into your heart, And knowledge shall be pleasant to your soul." 11 Foresight, it shall guard you; Comprehension, it shall preserve you, 12 So as to rescue you from the way of evil, From the man who is speaking duplicity, 13 From those who forsake the paths of uprightness To walk in the ways of darkness, 14 Who rejoice in doing evil, Who exult in the duplicity of evil, 15 Whose paths are perverse, And who are devious in their routes." 16 This will also rescue you from the strange woman, Or from the foreign woman who makes her words slick, 17 Who forsakes the mentor of her youth, And who forgets the covenant of her Elohim." 18 For she slips down to death with her house And her routes to the Rephaim; 19 All who enter it shall not return, Nor shall they overtake the paths of life." 20 Heed this that you may walk in the way of good men And keep to the paths of the righteous; 21 For the upright, they shall tabernacle in the land, And the flawless, they shall be left in it, 22 Yet the wicked, they shall be cut off from the land, And the treacherous, they shall be torn out from it."