Proverbs 2 — TOJB

2Verse 1Beni (my son), if thou wilt receive my words,
and treasure my mitzvot with thee;
^{Verse 2}So that thou incline thine ear unto chochmah,
and apply thine lev to tevunah (understanding);
^{Verse 3}Yea, if thou criest out after binah,
and liftest up thy voice for tevunah (understanding),
^{Verse 4}If thou seekest her as kesef,
and searchest for her as for matmonim (hidden treasures);
^{Verse 5}Then shalt thou understand the Yirat Hashem,
and find the Da'as Elohim.
^{Verse 6}For Hashem giveth chochmah;
out of His Peh (mouth) cometh da'as (knowledge) and tevunah (understanding).
^{Verse 7}He layeth up tushiyyah (wise Torah counsel) for the yesharim (upright ones);
He is a mogen (shield) to them that walk in blamelessness.
^{Verse 8}He keepeth the orkhot mishpat,
and is shomer over the derech of His Chasidim.
^{Verse 9}Then shalt thou understand tzedek, and mishpat,
and mesharim (equity, fairness) — every ma'agal tov (good path).
^{Verse 10}When chochmah entereth into thine lev,
and da'as (knowledge) is pleasant unto thy nefesh;
^{Verse 11}Mezimah (discretion) shall be shomer over thee,
tevunah (understanding) shall safeguard thee;
^{Verse 12}To save thee from the derech rah,
from the ish medaber tahpukhot (man speaking perverse things);
^{Verse 13}Who leaving the orkhot yosher (paths of uprightness),
walk in the drakhei choshech (ways of darkness);
^{Verse 14}Who rejoice to do rah,
and delight in the tahpukhot (perverse things) of rah (evil);
^{Verse 15}Whose orkhot (paths) are crooked ones,
and they are devious in their ma'agalot (paths).^{Verse 16}To save thee from the isha zarah (strange woman),
even from the nokhriyah (strange [immoral] woman) which useth smooth words;
^{Verse 17}Which forsaketh the alluf (companion, husband) of her youth,
and forgetteth the brit (covenant) of her G-d.
^{Verse 18}For her bais inclineth toward mavet,
and her ma'agalot (paths) to the refa'im (spirits of the dead).
^{Verse 19}None that go unto her return again,
neither attain they to the orkhot chayyim (paths of life).
^{Verse 20}That thou mayest walk in the derech tovim,
and be shomer over the orkhot tzaddikim (paths of the righteous).
^{Verse 21}For the yesharim (upright ones) shall dwell in the land,
and the tamimim (blameless, faultless ones) shall remain in it.
^{Verse 22}But the resha'im shall be cut off from ha'aretz,
and the bogedim (treacherous ones) shall be rooted out of it.