### Young's Literal Translation

Proverbs 2

## The Proverbs

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| # Chapter 3
| My son! my law forget not, And my commands let thy heart keep,
| For length of days and years, Life and peace they do add to thee.
| Let not kindness and truth forsake thee, Bind them on thy neck, Write them on the tablet of thy heart,
| And find grace and good understanding In the eyes of God and man.
| Trust unto Jehovah with all thy heart, And unto thine own understanding lean not.
| In all thy ways know thou Him, And He doth make straight thy paths.
| Be not wise in thine own eyes, Fear Jehovah, and turn aside from evil.
| Healing it is to thy navel, And moistening to thy bones.
| Honour Jehovah from thy substance, And from the beginning of all thine increase;
| And filled are thy barns [with] plenty, And [with] new wine thy presses break forth.
| Chastisement of Jehovah, my son, despise not, And be not vexed with His reproof,
| For whom Jehovah loveth He reproveth, Even as a father the son He is pleased with.
| O the happiness of a man [who] hath found wisdom, And of a man [who] bringeth forth understanding.
| For better [is] her merchandise Than the merchandise of silver, And than gold -- her increase.
| Precious she [is] above rubies, And all thy pleasures are not comparable to her.
| Length of days [is] in her right hand, In her left [are] wealth and honour.
| Her ways [are] ways of pleasantness, And all her paths [are] peace.
| A tree of life she [is] to those laying hold on her, And whoso is retaining her [is] happy.
| Jehovah by wisdom did found the earth, He prepared the heavens by understanding.
| By His knowledge depths have been rent, And clouds do drop dew.
| My son! let them not turn from thine eyes, Keep thou wisdom and thoughtfulness,
| And they are life to thy soul, and grace to thy neck.
| Then thou goest thy way confidently, And thy foot doth not stumble.
| If thou liest down, thou art not afraid, Yea, thou hast lain down, And sweet hath been thy sleep.
| Be not afraid of sudden fear, And of the desolation of the wicked when it cometh.
| For Jehovah is at thy side, And He hath kept thy foot from capture.
| Withhold not good from its owners, When thy hand [is] toward God to do [it].
| Say not thou to thy friend, 'Go, and return, and to-morrow I give,' And substance with thee.
| Devise not against thy neighbour evil, And he sitting confidently with thee.
| Strive not with a man without cause, If he have not done thee evil.
| Be not envious of a man of violence, Nor fix thou on any of his ways.
| For an abomination to Jehovah [is] the perverted, And with the upright [is] His secret counsel.
| The curse of Jehovah [is] in the house of the wicked. And the habitation of the righteous He blesseth.
| If the scorners He doth scorn, Yet to the humble He doth give grace.
| Honour do the wise inherit, And fools are bearing away shame!

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