### Young's Literal Translation

Proverbs 1

## The Proverbs

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| # Chapter 2
| My son, if thou dost accept my sayings, And my commands dost lay up with thee,
| To cause thine ear to attend to wisdom, Thou inclinest thy heart to understanding,
| For, if for intelligence thou callest, For understanding givest forth thy voice,
| If thou dost seek her as silver, And as hid treasures searchest for her,
| Then understandest thou fear of Jehovah, And knowledge of God thou findest.
| For Jehovah giveth wisdom, From His mouth knowledge and understanding.
| Even to lay up for the upright substance, A shield for those walking uprightly.
| To keep the paths of judgment, And the way of His saints He preserveth.
| Then understandest thou righteousness, And judgment, and uprightness -- every good path.
| For wisdom cometh into thy heart, And knowledge to thy soul is pleasant,
| Thoughtfulness doth watch over thee, Understanding doth keep thee,
| To deliver thee from an evil way, From any speaking froward things,
| Who are forsaking paths of uprightness, To walk in ways of darkness,
| Who are rejoicing to do evil, They delight in frowardness of the wicked,
| Whose paths [are] crooked, Yea, they are perverted in their ways.
| To deliver thee from the strange woman, From the stranger who hath made smooth her sayings,
| Who is forsaking the guide of her youth, And the covenant of her God hath forgotten.
| For her house hath inclined unto death, And unto Rephaim her paths.
| None going in unto her turn back, Nor do they reach the paths of life.
| That thou dost go in the way of the good, And the paths of the righteous dost keep.
| For the upright do inhabit the earth, And the perfect are left in it,
| And the wicked from the earth are cut off, And treacherous dealers plucked out of it!

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