Proverbs 2 — YLT

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