Proverbs 2

DOUAI-RHEIMS	Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
1 My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and wilt hide my commandments with thee,	1 My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you,
2 That thy ear may hearken to wisdom: Incline thy heart to know prudence:	2 making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding;
3 For if thou shalt call for wisdom, and incline thy heart to prudence:	3 yes, if you cry out for insight and raise your voice for understanding,
4 If thou shalt seek her as money, and shalt dig for her as for a treasure:	4 if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures;
5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and shalt find the knowledge of God.	5 then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God.
6 Because the Lord giveth wisdom: and out of his mouth cometh prudence and knowledge.	6 For the LORD gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;
7 He will keep the salvation of the righteous, and protect them that walk in simplicity.	7 he stores up sound wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
8 Keeping the paths of justice, and guarding the ways of saints.	8 guarding the paths of justice and preserving the way of his saints.
9 Then shalt thou understand justice, and judgment, and equity, and every good path.	9 Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path;
10 If wisdom shall enter into thy heart, and knowledge please thy soul:	10 for wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;
11 Counsel shall keep thee, and prudence shall preserve thee,	11 discretion will watch over you; understanding will guard you;
12 That thou mayst be delivered from the evil way, and from the man that speaketh perverse things:	12 delivering you from the way of evil, from men of perverted speech,
13 Who leave the right way, and walk by dark ways:	13 who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,
14 Who are glad when they have done evil, and rejoice in most wicked things:	14 who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perverseness of evil;
15 Whose ways are perverse, and their steps infamous.	15 men whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways.
16 That thou mayst be delivered from the strange women, and from the stranger, who softeneth her words:	16 You will be saved from the loose woman, from the adventuress with her smooth words,
17 And forsaketh the guide of her youth,	17 who forsakes the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God;
18 And hath forgotten the covenant of her God: for her house inclineth unto death, and her paths to hell.	18 for her house sinks down to death, and her paths to the shades;
19 None that go in unto her shall return again, neither shall they take hold of the paths of life,	19 none who go to her come back nor do they regain the paths of life.
20 That thou mayst walk in a good way: and mayst keep the paths of the just.	20 So you will walk in the way of good men and keep to the paths of the righteous.
21 For they that are upright shall dwell in the earth, and the simple shall continue in it.	21 For the upright will inhabit the land, and men of integrity will remain in it;
22 But the wicked shall be destroyed from the earth: and they that do unjustly shall be taken away from it.	22 but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.