Proverbs 2
2
1 My son, if you would accept my words, and conceal my commandments within you,
2 so that your ears may listen to wisdom, then bend your heart in order to know prudence.
3 For if you would call upon wisdom and bend your heart to prudence,
4 if you will seek her like money, and dig for her as if for treasure,
5 then you will understand the fear of the Lord, and you will discover the knowledge of God.
6 For the Lord bestows wisdom, and out of his mouth, prudence and knowledge.
7 He will preserve the salvation of the righteous, and he will protect those who walk in simplicity:
8 serving the paths of justice, and guarding the ways of sanctity.
9 Then you shall understand justice and judgment, and equity, and every good path.
10 If wisdom is to enter into your heart, and if knowledge is to become pleasing to your soul,
11 then counsel must guard you, and prudence must serve you,
12 so that you may be rescued from the evil way, and from the man who speaks perversities,
13 from those who leave the straight path to walk in dark ways,
14 who rejoice when they have done evil, and who exult in the most wicked things.
15 Their ways are perverse, and their steps are infamous.
16 So may you be rescued from the foreign woman, and from the outsider, who softens her speech,
17 and who leaves behind the Guide of her youth,
18 and who has forgotten the covenant of her God. For her household inclines toward death, and her paths toward Hell.
19 All those who enter to her will not return again, nor will they take hold of the paths of life.
20 So may you walk in the good way, and keep to the difficult paths of the just.
21 For those who are upright shall live upon the earth, and the simple shall continue upon it.
22 Yet truly, the impious shall perish from the earth, and those who act unjustly shall be taken away from it.
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Mishle 2
2
1Beni (my son), if thou wilt receive my words, and treasure my mitzvot with thee;
2So that thou incline thine ear unto chochmah, and apply thine lev to tevunah (understanding);
3Yea, if thou criest out after binah, and liftest up thy voice for tevunah (understanding),
4If thou seekest her as kesef, and searchest for her as for matmonim (hidden treasures);
5Then shalt thou understand the Yirat Hashem, and find the Da'as Elohim.
6For Hashem giveth chochmah; out of His Peh (mouth) cometh da'as (knowledge) and tevunah (understanding).
7He layeth up tushiyyah (wise Torah counsel) for the yesharim (upright ones); He is a mogen (shield) to them that walk in blamelessness.
8He keepeth the orkhot mishpat, and is shomer over the derech of His Chasidim.
9Then shalt thou understand tzedek, and mishpat, and mesharim (equity, fairness) — every ma'agal tov (good path).
10When chochmah entereth into thine lev, and da'as (knowledge) is pleasant unto thy nefesh;
11Mezimah (discretion) shall be shomer over thee, tevunah (understanding) shall safeguard thee;
12To save thee from the derech rah, from the ish medaber tahpukhot (man speaking perverse things);
13Who leaving the orkhot yosher (paths of uprightness), walk in the drakhei choshech (ways of darkness);
14Who rejoice to do rah, and delight in the tahpukhot (perverse things) of rah (evil);
15Whose orkhot (paths) are crooked ones, and they are devious in their ma'agalot (paths);
16To save thee from the isha zarah (strange woman), even from the nokhriyah (strange [immoral] woman) which useth smooth words;
17Which forsaketh the alluf (companion, husband) of her youth, and forgetteth the brit (covenant) of her G-d.
18For her bais inclineth toward mavet, and her ma'agalot (paths) to the refa'im (spirits of the dead).
19None that go unto her return again, neither attain they to the orkhot chayyim (paths of life).
20That thou mayest walk in the derech tovim, and be shomer over the orkhot tzaddikim (paths of the righteous).
21For the yesharim (upright ones) shall dwell in the land, and the tamimim (blameless, faultless ones) shall remain in it.
22But the resha'im shall be cut off from ha'aretz, and the bogedim (treacherous ones) shall be rooted out of it.
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