The valued of Wisdom -
wisdom delievers from evil
2:1 Beni (my son):
If you will receive my words, and hide my mitzvot with you;
2:2 So that you incline your ear to chokmah (wisdom), [and] apply your heart to understanding;
2:3 Yes, if you cry out for discernment, And lift up your voice for understanding,
2:4 If you seek her as silver, And search for her as for hidden treasures;
2:5 Then shall you understand the fear of YHVH (יהוה), and find the knowledge of Elohim (אלהים).
2:6 For YHVH (יהוה) gives chokmah (wisdom): out of his mouth [comes] knowledge and understanding.
2:7 He lays up sound chokmah (wisdom) for the righteous: [he is] a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
2:8 He keeps the paths of judgment, and preservs the way of his chasidim.
2:9 Then shall you understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; [yea], every good path.
2:10 When chokmah (wisdom) enters into your heart, and knowledge is pleasant to your soul;
2:11 Discretion shall preserve you, understanding shall keep you:
2:12 To deliver you from the way of the evil [man], from the man that speaks froward things;
2:13 Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
2:14 Who rejoice to do evil, [and] delight in the frowardness of the wicked;
2:15 Whose ways [are] crooked, and [they] froward in their paths:
2:16 To deliver you from the strange woman, [even] from the stranger [which] flatters with her words;
2:17 Which forsakes the guide of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her Elohim (אלהים).
2:18 For her house inclines to death, and her paths to the dead.
2:19 None that go to her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
2:20 So you may walk in the way of goodness, And keep to the paths of righteousness.
2:21 For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.
2:22 But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.