Proverbs 2 Comparison: American Standard Version vs Young's Literal Translation

Proverbs 2

¹My son, if thou wilt receive my words, And lay up my commandments with thee;

²So as to incline thine ear unto wisdom, And apply thy heart to understanding;

³Yea, if thou cry after discernment, And lift up thy voice for understanding;

⁴If thou seek her as silver, And search for her as for hid treasures:

⁵Then shalt thou understand the fear of Jehovah, And find the knowledge of God.

⁶For Jehovah giveth wisdom; Out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding:

⁷He layeth up sound wisdom for the upright; He isa shield to them that walk in integrity;

⁸That he may guard the paths of justice, And preserve the way of his saints.

⁹Then shalt thou understand righteousness and justice, And equity, yea, every good path.

¹⁰For wisdom shall enter into thy heart, And knowledge shall be pleasant unto thy soul;

¹¹Discretion shall watch over thee; Understanding shall keep thee:

¹²To deliver thee from the way of evil, From the men that speak perverse things;

¹³Who forsake the paths of uprightness, To walk in the ways of darkness;

¹⁴Who rejoice to do evil, And delight in the perverseness of evil;

¹⁵Who are crooked in their ways, And wayward in their paths:

¹⁶To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words;

¹⁷That forsaketh the friend of her youth, And forgetteth the covenant of her God:

¹⁸For her house inclineth unto death, And her paths unto the dead;

¹⁹None that go unto her return again, Neither do they attain unto the paths of life:

²⁰That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, And keep the paths of the righteous.

²¹For the upright shall dwell in the land, And the perfect shall remain in it.

²²But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, And the treacherous shall be rooted out of it.

Proverbs 2

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

⁹Then understandest thou righteousness, And judgment, and uprightnessevery good path.

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

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

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

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

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

¹⁵Whose paths are crooked, Yea, they are perverted in their ways.

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

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

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

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

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

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

²²And the wicked from the earth are cut off, And treacherous dealers plucked out of it!