The Book of Proverbs 2 |
The Young's Literal Translation Online Bible (YLT) |
Proverbs 2:1 | My son, if thou dost accept my sayings, And my commands dost lay up with thee, |
Proverbs 2:2 | To cause thine ear to attend to wisdom, Thou inclinest thy heart to understanding, |
Proverbs 2:3 | For, if for intelligence thou callest, For understanding givest forth thy voice, |
Proverbs 2:4 | If thou dost seek her as silver, And as hid treasures searchest for her, |
Proverbs 2:5 | Then understandest thou fear of Jehovah, And knowledge of God thou findest. |
Proverbs 2:6 | For Jehovah giveth wisdom, From His mouth knowledge and understanding. |
Proverbs 2:7 | Even to lay up for the upright substance, A shield for those walking uprightly. |
Proverbs 2:8 | To keep the paths of judgment, And the way of His saints He preserveth. |
Proverbs 2:9 | Then understandest thou righteousness, And judgment, and uprightness every good path. |
Proverbs 2:10 | For wisdom cometh into thy heart, And knowledge to thy soul is pleasant, |
Proverbs 2:11 | Thoughtfulness doth watch over thee, Understanding doth keep thee, |
Proverbs 2:12 | To deliver thee from an evil way, From any speaking froward things, |
Proverbs 2:13 | Who are forsaking paths of uprightness, To walk in ways of darkness, |
Proverbs 2:14 | Who are rejoicing to do evil, They delight in frowardness of the wicked, |
Proverbs 2:15 | Whose paths [are] crooked, Yea, they are perverted in their ways. |
Proverbs 2:16 | To deliver thee from the strange woman, From the stranger who hath made smooth her sayings, |
Proverbs 2:17 | Who is forsaking the guide of her youth, And the covenant of her God hath forgotten. |
Proverbs 2:18 | For her house hath inclined unto death, And unto Rephaim her paths. |
Proverbs 2:19 | None going in unto her turn back, Nor do they reach the paths of life. |
Proverbs 2:20 | That thou dost go in the way of the good, And the paths of the righteous dost keep. |
Proverbs 2:21 | For the upright do inhabit the earth, And the perfect are left in it, |
Proverbs 2:22 | And the wicked from the earth are cut off, And treacherous dealers plucked out of it! |