Proverbs 2

NEW JERUSALEM	KING JAMES BIBLE
1 My child, if you take my words to heart, if you set store by my commandments,	1 My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;
2 tuning your ear to wisdom, tuning your heart to understanding,	2 So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;
3 yes, if your plea is for clear perception, if you cry out for understanding,	3 Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;
4 if you look for it as though for silver, search for it as though for buried treasure,	4 If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;
5 then you wil understand what the fear of Yahweh is, and discover the knowledge of God.	5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.
6 For Yahweh himself is giver of wisdom, from his mouth issue knowledge and understanding.	6 For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.
7 He reserves his advice for the honest, a shield to those whose ways are sound;	7 He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
8 he stands guard over the paths of equity, he keeps watch over the way of those faithful to him.	8 He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.
9 Then you wil understand uprightness, equity and fair dealing, the paths that lead to happiness.	9 Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.
10 When wisdom comes into your heart and knowledge fil s your soul with delight,	10 When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;
11 then prudence wil be there to watch over you, and understanding wil be your guardian	11 Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:
12 to keep you from the way that is evil, from those whose speech is deceitful,	12 To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;
13 from those who leave the paths of honesty to walk the roads of darkness:	13 Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
14 those who find their joy in doing wrong, and their delight in deceitfulness,	14 Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;
15 whose tracks are twisted, and the paths that they tread crooked.	15 Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:
16 To keep you, too, from the woman who belongs to another, from the stranger, with her wheedlingwords;	16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
17 she has left the partner of her younger days, she has forgotten the covenant of her God;	17 Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
18 her house is tilting towards Death, down to the Shades go her paths.	18 For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
19 Of those who go to her not one returns, they never regain the paths of life.	19 None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
20 Thus you wil tread the way of good people, persisting in the paths of the upright.	20 That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.
21 For the land will be for the honest to live in, the innocent will have it for their home;	21 For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.
22 while the wicked wil be cut off from the land, and the faithless rooted out of it.	22 But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.