Proverbs 2
1Beni (my son), if thou wilt receive my words, 1 and treasure my mitzvot with thee; 1
2So that thou incline thine ear unto chochmah, 1 and apply thine lev to tevunah (understanding); 1
3Yea, if thou criest out after binah, 1 and liftest up thy voice for tevunah (understanding), 1
4If thou seekest her as kesef, 1 and searchest for her as for matmonim (hidden treasures); 1
5Then shalt thou understand the Yirat Hashem, 1 and find the Da'as Elohim. 1
6For Hashem giveth chochmah; 1 out of His Peh (mouth) cometh da'as (knowledge) and tevunah (understanding). 1
7He layeth up tushiyyah (wise Torah counsel) for the yesharim (upright ones); 1 He is a mogen (shield) to them that walk in blamelessness. 1
8He keepeth the orkhot mishpat, 1 and is shomer over the derech of His Chasidim. 1
9Then shalt thou understand tzedek, and mishpat, 1 and mesharim (equity, fairness) — every ma'agal tov (good path). 1
10When chochmah entereth into thine lev, 1 and da'as (knowledge) is pleasant unto thy nefesh; 1
11Mezimah (discretion) shall be shomer over thee, 1 tevunah (understanding) shall safeguard thee; 1
12To save thee from the derech rah, 1 from the ish medaber tahpukhot (man speaking perverse things); 1
13Who leaving the orkhot yosher (paths of uprightness), 1 walk in the drakhei choshech (ways of darkness); 1
14Who rejoice to do rah, 1 and delight in the tahpukhot (perverse things) of rah (evil); 1
15Whose orkhot (paths) are crooked ones, 1 and they are devious in their ma'agalot (paths). 1
16To save thee from the isha zarah (strange woman), 1 even from the nokhriyah (strange [immoral] woman) which useth smooth words; 1
17Which forsaketh the alluf (companion, husband) of her youth, 1 and forgetteth the brit (covenant) of her G-d. 1
18For her bais inclineth toward mavet, 1 and her ma'agalot (paths) to the refa'im (spirits of the dead). 1
19None that go unto her return again, 1 neither attain they to the orkhot chayyim (paths of life). 1
20That thou mayest walk in the derech tovim, 1 and be shomer over the orkhot tzaddikim (paths of the righteous). 1
21For the yesharim (upright ones) shall dwell in the land, 1 and the tamimim (blameless, faultless ones) shall remain in it. 1
22But the resha'im shall be cut off from ha'aretz, 1 and the bogedim (treacherous ones) shall be rooted out of it.