Proverbs Chapter 2

Wisdom promises godliness and safety

2:1 My son, if you will accept my words, and treasure My commandmentsוּמִצְוֺתַי
Transliteration: ûmiṣôṯay -and My comandments – Meaning: a command, whether human or divine (collectively, the Law):—(which was) commanded(-ment), law, ordinance, precept. For more info click here with yourself;
2:2 making your ears attentive to wisdom, incline your heart to understanding;
2:3 Because, if you call out to understanding, and lift up your voice for insight;
2:4 If you seek it like silver, and if search for it like for hidden treasures;
2:5 Then will you understand the fear of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here, and find the knowledge of Elohimאֱלֹהִים
romanized: ʾĔlōhīm: [(ʔ)eloˈ(h)im]), the plural of אֱלוֹהַּ‎ (ʾĔlōah), is a Hebrew word meaning “gods”. Although the word is plural, in the Hebrew Bible it most often takes singular verbal or pronominal agreement and refers to a single deity particularly the God of Israel In other verses it refers to the singular gods of other nations or to deities in the plural A name for GOD — God The Creator. For more info click here.
2:6 Because YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here grants wisdom: from His mouth [comes] knowledge and understanding.
2:7 He stores up sound wisdom for the upright: He is a shield to those that walk [in] innocence.
2:8 He guard the paths justiceמִשְׁפָּט‎
Transliteration: mišpāṭ – properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant’s) divine law, individual or collective), including the act, the place, the suit, the crime, and the penalty; abstractly, justice, including a participant’s right or privilege (statutory or customary), or even a style:— adversary, ceremony, charge custom, desert, determination, discretion, disposing, due, fashion, form, to be judged, judgment, just(-ice, -ly), (manner of) law(-ful), manner, measure, (due) order, ordinance, right, sentence. For more info click here, and He protects the way of His devout onesחֲסִידָיו‎
Transliteration: ḥăsîḏāyv – devout ones properly, kind, i.e. (religiously) pious (a saint):—godly (man), good, holy (one), merciful, saint, (un-) godly For more info click here .
2:9 Then you will understand righteousnessצֶדֶק‎
Transliteration:ṣeḏeq Pronunciation:tseh’-dek the right (natural, moral or legal); also (abstractly) equity or (figuratively) prosperity:—× even, (× that which is altogether) just(-ice), (un-)right(-eous) (cause, -ly, -ness). For more info click here, and justiceמִשְׁפָּט‎
Transliteration: mišpāṭ – properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant’s) divine law, individual or collective), including the act, the place, the suit, the crime, and the penalty; abstractly, justice, including a participant’s right or privilege (statutory or customary), or even a style:— adversary, ceremony, charge custom, desert, determination, discretion, disposing, due, fashion, form, to be judged, judgment, just(-ice, -ly), (manner of) law(-ful), manner, measure, (due) order, ordinance, right, sentence. For more info click here, and fairness; and every goodטוֹב
Transliteration: ṭôḇ Pronunciation: tobe – good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good or good thing, a good man or woman; the good, goods or good things, good men or women), also as an adverb (well):—beautiful, best, better, bountiful, cheerful, at ease, fair, (be in) favor, fine, glad, good (deed, -lier, -lie, -ly, -ness, -s), graciously, joyful, kindly, kindness, like (best), loving, merry, × most, pleasant, please, pleasure, precious, prosperity, ready, sweet, wealth, welfare, (be) well(-favored). For more info click here path.
2:10 When wisdom enters your heart, and knowledge becomes pleasant to your soulלְנַפְשְׁךָ
Transliteration: lᵊnap̄šᵊḵā Meaning: soul, self, life, creature, person, appetite, mind, living being, desire, emotion, passion For more info click here;
2:11 discretion will watch over you, understanding will guard you:
2:12 to rescue youלְהַצִּילְךָ‎
Transliteration: lᵊhaṣṣîlḵā – to snatch away, deliver, rescue, save, strip, plunder – For more info click here from the pathמִדֶּרֶךְ
Transliteration: midereḵ – by the way, by the road, by the distance, by the journey, by the manner, by the path, by the direction, toward the – For more info click here of evilרַע‎
Transliteration: raʿ – In the KJV is translated in the following manner: evil (442x), wickedness (59x), wicked (25x), mischief (21x), hurt (20x), bad (13x), trouble (10x), sore (9x), affliction (6x), ill (5x), adversity (4x), ill favored (3x), harm (3x), naught (3x), noisome (2x), grievous (2x), sad (2x), miscellaneous (34x) For more info click here, from the man that speaks perverted things;
2:13 [from those] who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the pathsבְּדַרְכֵי
Hebrew Noun: Common Both Plural Construct – in the ways, in the roads, in the distances, in the journeys, in the manners, in the paths, in the directions For more info click here of darkness;
2:14 who are glad to do evilרַע‎
Transliteration: raʿ – In the KJV is translated in the following manner: evil (442x), wickedness (59x), wicked (25x), mischief (21x), hurt (20x), bad (13x), trouble (10x), sore (9x), affliction (6x), ill (5x), adversity (4x), ill favored (3x), harm (3x), naught (3x), noisome (2x), grievous (2x), sad (2x), miscellaneous (34x) For more info click here, [and] delight in the perverseness of the evilרַע‎
Transliteration: raʿ – In the KJV is translated in the following manner: evil (442x), wickedness (59x), wicked (25x), mischief (21x), hurt (20x), bad (13x), trouble (10x), sore (9x), affliction (6x), ill (5x), adversity (4x), ill favored (3x), harm (3x), naught (3x), noisome (2x), grievous (2x), sad (2x), miscellaneous (34x) For more info click here;
2:15 whose ways are crooked, and they go astray in their paths:
2:16 To save youנָצַל‎
Transliteration: nāṣal – to snatch away, deliver, rescue, save, strip, plunder – For more info click here from the strange woman* 16-19 Heresy is like a temptress. Once someone succumbs to either, it is difficult to detach oneself and repent (Rashi). – From the Artscroll English Tanach, even from the foreign woman who’s words are superficial;
2:17 who forsakes the partner of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her Elohim אֱלֹהֶיהָ
Transliteration: ‘ĕlōhêhā – of her God – root word is Elohim for more info on the word click here.
2:18 Because her house inclines toward death, and her paths toward the dead.
2:19 None that go to her return, or do they regain the path to life.
2:20 so that you may walk on the pathבְּדֶרֶךְ
Transliteration:ba dereḵ Pronunciation:bah deh’-rek way, Hebrew Noun: Common Both Singular Construct – in the road, in the distance, in the journey, in the manner, in the path, in the direction For more info click here of goodטוֹבִים
Transliteration: ṭôḇîm – Hebrew Adjective: Adjective Masculine Plural Absolute -good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good or good thing, a good man or woman; the good, goods or good things, good men or women), also as an adverb (well): — beautiful, best, better, bountiful, cheerful, at ease, fair. For more info click here, and keep the paths of the righteousצַדִּיקִים‎
Transliteration ṣadîqîm – Hebrew Adjective: Adjective Masculine Plural Absolute – To do what is right Tzadik is also the root of the word tzedakah (‘charity’, literally ‘righteousness’). Just, justice, rightness just:—just, lawful, righteous (man), righteousness – For more info click here.
2:21 Because the upright will live on the land, and the pure-hearted will remain on it.
2:22 But the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be uprooted from it.