en_wbms - Pro 2 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ My son, if thou receivest my words, and hidest my behests with thee;

² that thine ear hear wisdom, bow thine heart to know prudence.

³ For if thou inwardly callest wisdom, and bowest thine heart to prudence;

⁴ if thou seekest it as money, and diggest it out as treasures;

⁵ then thou shalt understand the dread of the Lord, and shalt find the knowing of God.

⁶ For the Lord giveth wisdom; and prudence and knowing is of his mouth.

⁷ He shall keep the health of rightful [or rightwise] men, and he shall defend them that go simply.

⁸ And he shall keep the paths of rightwiseness, and he shall keep the ways of holy men.

⁹ Then thou shalt understand rightfulness [or rightwiseness], and doom, and equity, and each good path.

¹⁰ If wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowing pleaseth thy soul,

¹¹ good counsel shall keep thee, and prudence shall keep thee;

¹² that thou be delivered from an evil way, and from a man that speaketh wayward things.

¹³ Which forsake a rightful [or right] way, and go by dark ways;

¹⁴ which be glad, when they have done evil, and make full out joy in worst things;

¹⁵ whose ways be wayward, and their goings be of evil fame.

¹⁶ That thou be delivered from an alien woman, and from a strange woman, that maketh soft her words;

¹⁷ and forsaketh the duke of her time of marriage, and hath forgotten the covenant of her God.

¹⁸ For the house of her is bowed to death, and her paths to hell.

¹⁹ All that enter to her, shall not turn again, neither they shall catch the paths of life.

²⁰ That thou go in a good way, and keep the paths of just [or rightwise] men.

²¹ Forsooth they that be rightful, shall dwell in the land; and simple men shall perfectly dwell therein.

²² But unfaithful men shall be lost from the land; and they that do wickedly, shall be taken away from it.