Proverbs 2:5-18

⁵If you do that, you will understand how to revere Yahweh, and you will succeed in knowing God.

⁶Yahweh is the one who gives us wisdom. He is the one who tells us things that we need to know and understand.

⁷He gives good advice to those who conduct their lives as they should. He protects MET those who do what is right.

⁸He guards those who act justly/fairly toward others, and he watches over those who are faithful/loyal to him.

⁹If you ask God for wisdom, you will understand what is right and just DOU to do, and you will know the right way to conduct your life,

¹⁰because you will be wise in your inner being; and knowing what God wants you to know will cause you to be joyful.

¹¹If you know PRS how to choose what is right to do and if you understand what God wants you to do, God will protect you and guard you and keep you safe.

¹²If you are wise PRS, you will not do what evil people do, and you will not believe what deceitful people say.

¹³Deceitful people have stopped acting fairly/justly toward others and ◄walk on dark and evil paths/do what evil people do► MET.

¹⁴They enjoy doing what is wrong; they like to do what is evil and to deceive people.

¹⁵They ◄walk on crooked paths/always deceive others► and are always dishonest.

¹⁶If you are wise PRS, you will also be saved from ◄immoral women/prostitutes►; you will not pay attention when adulterous women try to ◄seduce/entice you by what they say.►

¹⁷Those women have left the husbands whom they married when they were young; they have disregarded the solemn promise they made to God not to commit adultery.

¹⁸If you go into houses of women who are like that, you will die when you are still young; the road to their houses leads to hell.