Proverbs 2 — ULB
2Verse 1My son, if you receive my words
and treasure up my commandments with you,
Verse 2make your ears pay attention to wisdom
and incline your heart to understanding.
Verse 3If you cry out for understanding
and raise your voice for it,
Verse 4if you seek it like you would seek silver
and search for understanding as you would seek hidden treasures,
Verse 5then you will understand the fear of Yahweh
and you will find the knowledge of God.
Verse 6For Yahweh gives wisdom,
from his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
Verse 7He stores up sound wisdom for those who please him,
he is a shield for those who walk in integrity,
Verse 8he guards the paths of justice
and he will preserve the way of those who are faithful to him.
Verse 9Then you will understand righteousness, justice, and equity,
and every good path.
Verse 10For wisdom will come into your heart,
and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
Verse 11Discretion will watch over you,
understanding will guard you.
Verse 12They will rescue you from the way of evil,
from those who speak perverse things,
Verse 13who abandon the right paths
and walk in the ways of darkness.
Verse 14They rejoice when they do evil
and delight in the perversities of evil.
Verse 15They follow crooked paths,
and using deception they hide their tracks.
Verse 16Wisdom and discretion will save you from an adulterous woman,
from an immoral woman and her flattering words.
Verse 17She forsakes the companion of her youth
and forgets the covenant of her God.
Verse 18For her house leads down to death
and her tracks will lead you to those in the grave.
Verse 19All who go in to her will not return again
and they will not find the paths of life.
Verse 20So you will walk in the way of good people
and follow the paths of righteous people.
Verse 21For those doing right will make a home in the land,
and those with integrity will remain in it.
Verse 22But the wicked will be cut off from the land,
and the faithless will be cut off from it.
and treasure up my commandments with you,
Verse 2make your ears pay attention to wisdom
and incline your heart to understanding.
Verse 3If you cry out for understanding
and raise your voice for it,
Verse 4if you seek it like you would seek silver
and search for understanding as you would seek hidden treasures,
Verse 5then you will understand the fear of Yahweh
and you will find the knowledge of God.
Verse 6For Yahweh gives wisdom,
from his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
Verse 7He stores up sound wisdom for those who please him,
he is a shield for those who walk in integrity,
Verse 8he guards the paths of justice
and he will preserve the way of those who are faithful to him.
Verse 9Then you will understand righteousness, justice, and equity,
and every good path.
Verse 10For wisdom will come into your heart,
and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
Verse 11Discretion will watch over you,
understanding will guard you.
Verse 12They will rescue you from the way of evil,
from those who speak perverse things,
Verse 13who abandon the right paths
and walk in the ways of darkness.
Verse 14They rejoice when they do evil
and delight in the perversities of evil.
Verse 15They follow crooked paths,
and using deception they hide their tracks.
Verse 16Wisdom and discretion will save you from an adulterous woman,
from an immoral woman and her flattering words.
Verse 17She forsakes the companion of her youth
and forgets the covenant of her God.
Verse 18For her house leads down to death
and her tracks will lead you to those in the grave.
Verse 19All who go in to her will not return again
and they will not find the paths of life.
Verse 20So you will walk in the way of good people
and follow the paths of righteous people.
Verse 21For those doing right will make a home in the land,
and those with integrity will remain in it.
Verse 22But the wicked will be cut off from the land,
and the faithless will be cut off from it.