2:1 My son, if thou dost accept my sayings, And my commands dost lay up with thee,

2:2 To cause thine ear to attend to wisdom, Thou inclinest thy heart to understanding,

2:3 For, if for intelligence thou callest, For understanding givest forth thy voice,

2:4 If thou dost seek her as silver, And as hid treasures searchest for her,

2:5 Then understandest thou fear of Jehovah, And knowledge of God thou findest.

2:6 For Jehovah giveth wisdom, From His mouth knowledge and understanding.

2:7 Even to lay up for the upright substance, A shield for those walking uprightly.

2:8 To keep the paths of judgment, And the way of His saints He preserveth.

2:9 Then understandest thou righteousness, And judgment, and uprightness -- every good path.

2:10 For wisdom cometh into thy heart, And knowledge to thy soul is pleasant,

2:11 Thoughtfulness doth watch over thee, Understanding doth keep thee,

2:12 To deliver thee from an evil way, From any speaking froward things,

2:13 Who are forsaking paths of uprightness, To walk in ways of darkness,

2:14 Who are rejoicing to do evil, They delight in frowardness of the wicked,

2:15 Whose paths [are] crooked, Yea, they are perverted in their ways.

2:16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, From the stranger who hath made smooth her sayings,

2:17 Who is forsaking the guide of her youth, And the covenant of her God hath forgotten.

2:18 For her house hath inclined unto death, And unto Rephaim her paths.

2:19 None going in unto her turn back, Nor do they reach the paths of life.

2:20 That thou dost go in the way of the good, And the paths of the righteous dost keep.

2:21 For the upright do inhabit the earth, And the perfect are left in it,