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Proverbs 2

The Bible in Basic English BBE

1 My son, if you will take my words to your heart, storing up my laws in your mind;

2 So that your ear gives attention to wisdom, and your heart is turned to knowledge;

3 Truly, if you are crying out for good sense, and your request is for knowledge;

4 If you are looking for her as for silver, and searching for her as for stored-up wealth;

5 Then the fear of the Lord will be clear to you, and knowledge of God will be yours.

6 For the Lord gives wisdom; out of his mouth come knowledge and reason:

7 He has salvation stored up for the upright, he is a breastplate to those in whom there is no evil;

8 He keeps watch on the ways which are right, and takes care of those who have the fear of him.

9 Then you will have knowledge of righteousness and right acting, and upright behaviour, even of every good way.

10 For wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasing to your soul;

11 Wise purposes will be watching over you, and knowledge will keep you;

12 Giving you salvation from the evil man, from those whose words are false;

13 Who give up the way of righteousness, to go by dark roads;

14 Who take pleasure in wrongdoing, and have joy in the evil designs of the sinner;

15 Whose ways are not straight, and whose footsteps are turned to evil:

16 To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue;

17 Who is false to the husband of her early years, and does not keep the agreement of her God in mind:

18 For her house is on the way down to death; her footsteps go down to the shades:

19 Those who go to her do not come back again; their feet do not keep in the ways of life:

20 So that you may go in the way of good men, and keep in the footsteps of the upright.

21 For the upright will be living in the land, and the good will have it for their heritage.

22 But sinners will be cut off from the land, and those whose acts are false will be uprooted.

Orthodox Jewish Bible OJB

1 Beni (my son), if thou wilt receive my words, and treasure my mitzvot with thee;

2 So that thou incline thine ear unto chochmah, and apply thine lev to tevunah (understanding);

3 Yea, if thou criest out after binah, and liftest up thy voice for tevunah (understanding)

4 If thou seekest her as kesef, and searchest for her as for matmonim (hidden treasures);

5 Then shalt thou understand the Yirat Hashem, and find the Da’as Elohim.

6 For Hashem giveth chochmah; out of His Peh (mouth) cometh da’as (knowledge) and tevunah (understanding).

7 He layeth up tushiyyah (wise Torah counsel) for the yesharim (upright ones); He is a mogen (shield) to them that walk in blamelessness.

8 He keepeth the orkhot mishpat, and is shomer over the derech of His Chasidim.

9 Then shalt thou understand tzedek, and mishpat, and mesharim (equity, fairness)?every ma’agal tov (good path).

10 When chochmah entereth into thine lev, and da’as (knowledge) is pleasant unto thy nefesh;

11 Mezimah (discretion) shall be shomer over thee, tevunah (understanding) shall safeguard thee;

12 To save thee from the derech rah, from the ish medaber tahpukhot (man speaking perverse things);

13 Who leaving the orkhot yosher (paths of uprightness), walk in the drakhei choshech (ways of darkness);

14 Who rejoice to do rah, and delight in the tahpukhot (perverse things) of rah (evil);

15 Whose orkhot (paths) are crooked ones, and they are devious in their ma’agalot (paths);

16 To save thee from the isha zarah (strange woman), even from the nokhriyah (strange [immoral] woman) which useth smooth words;

17 Which forsaketh the alluf (companion, husband) of her youth, and forgetteth the brit (covenant) of her G-d.

18 For her bais inclineth toward mavet, and her ma’agalot (paths) to the refa’im (spirits of the dead).

19 None that go unto her return again, neither attain they to the orkhot chayyim (paths of life).

20 That thou mayest walk in the derech tovim, and be shomer over the orkhot tzaddikim (paths of the righteous).

21 For the yesharim (upright ones) shall dwell in the land, and the tamimim (blameless, faultless ones) shall remain in it.

22 But the resha’im shall be cut off from ha’aretz, and the bogedim (treacherous ones) shall be rooted out of it.