Provérbios 2

Ngā Huanga o te Whakaaronui

1 E tāku tama, ki te tango koe i āku kupu,

ki te huna i āku whakahau ki roto ki a koe,

2 ā, ka tahuri tōu taringa ki te whakaaro nui,

ka anga anō tōu ngākau ki te mātauranga;

3 āe rā, ki te mea ka kārangarangatia e koe te mātauranga,

ā, ka puaki tōu reo ki te ngākau mōhio;

4 ki te rapua hoki ia e koe ānō he hiriwa,

ki te kimihia ānō he taonga huna –

5 ko reira koe mātau ai ki te wehi o Ihowā,

kite ai i te mōhio ki te Atua.

6 Mā Ihowā hoki e hōmai te whakaaro nui;

nō tōna māngai te mātauranga me te ngākau mōhio.

7 E rongoātia ana e ia te whakaaro nui mā te hunga tika;

he whakangungu rākau ia mō te hunga he tapatahi nei te haere,

8 kia tiakina ai e ia ngā ara o te whakawā,

kia tohungia ai te ara o tāna hunga tapu.

9 Ko reira koe mōhio ai ki te tika, ki te whakawā, ki te mea anō e rite ana,

āe rā, ki ngā ara pai katoa.

10 Ka uru hoki te whakaaro nui ki roto ki tōu ngākau,

ā, ka reka te mātauranga ki tōu wairua;

11 ka ai te ngārahu pai hei tiaki i a koe,

te ngākau mōhio hei pupuri i a koe;

12 hei kukume mai i a koe i te ara o te kino,

i te tangata e puta kē ana āna kōrero;

13 i te hunga e whakarere nei i ngā ara o te tika,

e haere ana i ngā ara o te pōuri;

14 e koa ana, i a rātou e mahi ana i te kino,

e hari ana ki ngā tikanga parori kē o te kino;

15 he ara kōpikopiko ō rātou,

he whanokē rātou i ō rātou huarahi;

16 hei whakaora i a koe i te wahine tauhou,

i te wahine tauhou e whakapati nei ki āna kupu.

17 Kua whakarērea nei e ia te hoa o tōna tamāhinetanga,

kua wareware ki te kawenata o tōna Atua.

18 E heke atu ana hoki tōna whare ki te mate,

ōna ara ki ngā tūpāpaku.

19 Ko te hunga katoa e haere atu ana ki a ia e kore e hoki mai;

e kore anō e mau i a rātou ngā ara o te ora.

20 Ā, ka haere koe i ngā ara o ngā tāngata pai,

ka mau anō ki ngā ara o te hunga tika.

21 Ka noho hoki te hunga tika ki te whenua;

ka mau te hunga ngākau tapatahi ki reira.

22 Ka hātepea atu ia te hunga kino i runga i te whenua,

ka hūtia atu i reira te hunga he kōpeka tā rātou mahi.

1 My son, if thou wilt receive my words,

And lay up my commandments with thee;

2 So as to incline thine ear unto wisdom,

And apply thy heart to understanding;

3 Yea, if thou cry after discernment,

And lift up thy voice for understanding;

4 If thou seek her as silver,

And search for her as for hid treasures:

5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of Jehovah,

And find the knowledge of God.

6 For Jehovah giveth wisdom;

Out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding:

7 He layeth up sound wisdom for the upright;

He is a shield to them that walk in integrity;

8 That he may guard the paths of justice,

And preserve the way of his saints.

9 Then shalt thou understand righteousness and justice,

And equity, yea, every good path.

10 For wisdom shall enter into thy heart,

And knowledge shall be pleasant unto thy soul;

11 Discretion shall watch over thee;

Understanding shall keep thee:

12 To deliver thee from the way of evil,

From the men that speak perverse things;

13 Who forsake the paths of uprightness,

To walk in the ways of darkness;

14 Who rejoice to do evil,

And delight in the perverseness of evil;

15 Who are crooked in their ways,

And wayward in their paths:

16 To deliver thee from the strange woman,

Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words;

17 That forsaketh the friend of her youth,

And forgetteth the covenant of her God:

18 For her house inclineth unto death,

And her paths unto the dead;

19 None that go unto her return again,

Neither do they attain unto the paths of life:

20 That thou mayest walk in the way of good men,

And keep the paths of the righteous.

21 For the upright shall dwell in the land,

And the perfect shall remain in it.

22 But the wicked shall be cut off from the land,

And the treacherous shall be rooted out of it.