2:1 My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you,
2:1 My child, if you accept my words and treasure up my commandments within you,

2:2 making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding;
2:2 making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding;

2:3 yes, if you cry out for insight and raise your voice for understanding,
2:3 if you indeed cry out for insight, and raise your voice for understanding;

2:4 if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures;
2:4 if you seek it like silver, and search for it as for hidden treasures--

2:5 then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God.
2:5 then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God.

2:6 For the LORD gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;
2:6 For the LORD gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;

2:7 he stores up sound wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
2:7 he stores up sound wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk blamelessly,

2:8 guarding the paths of justice and preserving the way of his saints.
2:8 guarding the paths of justice and preserving the way of his faithful ones.

2:9 Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path;
2:9 Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path;

2:10 for wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;
2:10 for wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;

2:11 discretion will watch over you; understanding will guard you;
2:11 prudence will watch over you; and understanding will guard you.

2:12 delivering you from the way of evil, from men of perverted speech,
2:12 It will save you from the way of evil, from those who speak perversely,

2:13 who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,
2:13 who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,

2:14 who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perverseness of evil;
2:14 who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perverseness of evil;

2:15 men whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways.
2:15 those whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways.

2:16 You will be saved from the loose woman, from the adventuress with her smooth words,
2:16 You will be saved from the loose woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words,

2:17 who forsakes the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God;
2:17 who forsakes the partner of her youth and forgets her sacred covenant;

2:18 for her house sinks down to death, and her paths to the shades;
2:18 for her way leads down to death, and her paths to the shades;

2:19 none who go to her come back nor do they regain the paths of life.
2:19 those who go to her never come back, nor do they regain the paths of life.

2:20 So you will walk in the way of good men and keep to the paths of the righteous.
2:20 Therefore walk in the way of the good, and keep to the paths of the just.

2:21 For the upright will inhabit the land, and men of integrity will remain in it;
2:21 For the upright will abide in the land, and the innocent will remain in it;

2:22 but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.
2:22 but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.