This translation is from the New Jerusalem Bible. Other translations are available here Information about the original Hebrew meaning of what seem to be the key words is provided immediately below the scriptural text.
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My child, if you take my words to heart, if you set store by my commandments, 2tuning your ear to wisdom, tuning your heart to understanding, 3yes, if your plea is for clear perception, if you cry out for understanding, 4if you look for it as though for silver, search for it as though for buried treasure, 5then you will understand what the fear of Yahweh is, and discover the knowledge of God. 6For Yahweh himself is giver of wisdom, from his mouth issue knowledge and understanding.
7He reserves his advice for the honest, a shield to those whose ways are sound; 8he stands guard over the paths of equity, he keeps watch over the way of those faithful to him.9Then you will understand uprightness, equity and fair dealing, the paths that lead to happiness.
10When wisdom comes into your heart and knowledge fills your soul with delight, 11then prudence will be there to watch over you, and understanding will be your guardian 12to keep you from the way that is evil, from those whose speech is deceitful, 13from those who leave the paths of honesty to walk the roads of darkness: 14those who find their joy in doing wrong, and their delight in deceitfulness, 15whose tracks are twisted, and the paths that they tread crooked. 16To keep you, too, from the woman who belongs to another, from the stranger, with her wheedling words; 17she has left the partner of her younger days, she has forgotten the covenant of her God; 18her house is tilting towards Death, down to the Shades go her paths. 19Of those who go to her not one returns, they never regain the paths of life.
20Thus you will tread the way of good people, persisting in the paths of the upright. 21For the land will be for the honest to live in, the innocent will have it for their home; 22while the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the faithless rooted out of it.
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son = בֵּן = bēn Blue Letter Bible son, grandson, child, member of a group; male child; young men; children (pl. - male and female); foster son; disciple; one related to a time, place, emotion, condition, status; term of kindliness or endearment; expression of intimate and gracious relation
take = לָקַח = lāqaḥ Blue Letter Bible to take, get, fetch, lay hold of, seize, receive, acquire; to take and carry along; to take from, take out of, take, carry away, take away; to take (in the widest variety of applications)
words = אֵמֶר = 'ēmer Blue Letter Bible utterance, speech, word, saying, promise; command, mandate; something said; appointed unto him; saying, speech, word
set store by = צָפַן = tsaphan Blue Letter Bible hide, treasure, treasure or store up; to hoard or reserve; to protect; esteem; lay up; to guard or defend
AND
אֵת = 'ēṯ Blue Letter Bible with, near, together with; from; among; nearness and vicinity; possession of a thing in the mind; in one's possession or keeping; in one's knowledge or memory; intercourse of different kinds with another
tuning = קָשַׁב = qashab Blue Letter Bible to hear, be attentive, heed, incline (of ears), attend (of ears), hearken, pay attention, listen; give attention; to prick up the ears; regard
ear = אֹזֶן = 'ōzen Blue Letter Bible ear, as organ of hearing; to uncover the ear to reveal; open ears of, reveal to; to place in anyone’s ear; to hear with anyone’s ears
tuning = נָטָה = natah Blue Letter Bible to stretch out, extend, spread out, pitch, turn, pervert, incline, bend, bow; to turn aside, incline, decline, bend down; to hold out, extend; to turn, incline, influence; outstretched; wrest, cause to yield; spread oneself; seduce
heart= לֵב = lēḇ Blue Letter Bible inner man, mind, will, understanding; midst; soul; mind, knowledge, thinking, reflection, memory; inclination, resolution, determination (of will); conscience; seat of appetites, emotions, passions, courage; feelings, the will and even the intellect; the centre of anything
understanding = תָּבוּן = tāḇûn Blue Letter Bible understanding, intelligence; the act of understanding; skill; the faculty of understanding; insight; the object of knowledge; teacher (personification); discretion; reason; skillfulness; wisdom
plea = קָרָא = qārā' Blue Letter Bible to call, cry, utter a loud sound; proclaim; read aloud, read (to oneself); the idea of accosting a person met; address by name; call; name, give name to; call upon or to
perception = בִּינָה = bînâ Blue Letter Bible discernment; knowledge; insight; wisdom; intelligence; skill
cry out = קוֹל = qôl Blue Letter Bible proclaim; command, entreat; claim; sing out; thundering; with a loud voice; voice, sound, noise; call aloud; a voice or sound; bleating, crackling, lowing, neighing, stamping of feet; noise of inanimate objects; lightness, frivolity
AND
נָתַן = nāṯan Blue Letter Bible to give, bestow, grant; consecrate, devote, dedicate; entrust, give over, deliver up; yield, produce; be (healed); pour; print; teach; to apply the heart to; to constitute, to make a thing like or similar to; cause to receive
understanding—see above
look for = בָּקַשׁ = baqash Blue Letter Bible to seek, require, desire, exact, request; to desire, demand; beg, beseech; strive after, try to get
search = ḥāp̄aś = ḥāp̄aś Blue Letter Bible search, search for, search out; make diligent search; think out, devise, test; be exposed; disguise oneself
then = אָז = 'āz Blue Letter Bible then, at that time; temporal expressions: then (past); then, if, then (future); logical expressions: in that case, that (being so); after that; thereupon; with an accompanying logical force, implying the fulfilment of a condition: then = if or when this has been done; expressing logical sequence strictly; at that time or place; therefore; beginning; from; hitherto; now; of old; once; since; then; at which time; yet
understand = בִּין = bîn Blue Letter Bible discern, understand, consider; perceive; to observe, mark, give heed to, distinguish, consider; to have discernment, insight, understanding; to be discerning, intelligent, discreet, have understanding; to show oneself discerning or attentive, consider diligently; look well to, mark
fear = יִרְאָה = yir'â Blue Letter Bible respect, reverence, piety; revered; holy fear; awesome or terrifying thing; fear, terror
discover =מָצָא = matsa' Blue Letter Bible attain to, secure, acquire, get (thing sought); to find (what is lost); to learn, devise; to be discovered, be detected; to be gained, be secured; to attain, i.e. find or acquire; to find out by thinking; to wish to find, to seek
knowledge = דַּעַת = daʿaṯ Blue Letter Bible knowledge, perception, skill; discernment, understanding, wisdom; cunning; knowing; intelligence
giver = נָתַן = nāṯan Blue Letter Bible to give, bestow, grant; consecrate, devote, dedicate; entrust, give over, deliver up; yield, produce; be (healed); pour; print; teach; to apply the heart to; to constitute, to make a thing like or similar to; cause to receive
wisdom = חָכְמָה = ḥāḵmâ Blue Letter Bible a divine attribute or energy; cleverness; shrewdness; skill; prudence; cleverness; dexterity; wit; piety towards God
knowledge–see above
understanding—see above
advice = תּוּשִׁיָּה = tûšîyâ Blue Letter Bible wisdom, sound or efficient wisdom; counsel; sound knowledge; abiding success; to substantiate; support or (by implication) ability, i.e. (direct) help; lifting up, erecting
honest = יָשָׁר = yāšār Blue Letter Bible straight, upright, correct, right; level, pleasing; straightforward, just, upright, fitting, proper; righteous; even
shield = מָגֵן = māḡēn Blue Letter Bible shield, buckler; figuratively, a protector; also the scaly hide of the crocodile; defence; ruler
ways = הָלַךְ = halak Blue Letter Bible to go; proceed, move; enter; follow; go along; proceed; to go with, have intercourse with; to go after; pursue; live, manner of life; to go on, go forward; traverse; march; to flow, be poured out
sound = תֹּם = tōm Blue Letter Bible integrity; completeness, fulness; innocence, simplicity; upright; without evil purpose
guard = נָצַר = nāṣar Blue Letter Bible watch over; observe, guard with fidelity; kept close, be blockaded; protect, maintain, obey; preserve
paths = אֹרַח = 'ōraḥ Blue Letter Bible way, path; road; way of living; a well-trodden road; by-, high-) way; course of living and acting; way of living; mode of living, or of character
equity = מִשְׁפָּט = mishpat Blue Letter Bible judgment, justice, ordinance; act of deciding a case; process, procedure, litigation (before judges); right, rectitude; proper, fitting; that which is just, lawful
keeps watch = שָׁמַר = šāmar Blue Letter Bible to keep, guard, observe, give heed; retain, treasure up (in memory); preserve; attend to
way = דֶּרֶךְ = dereḵ Blue Letter Bible way, road, distance, journey, manner; path; mode; habit, way; course of life; mode of action
faithful =חָסִיד = ḥāsîḏ Blue Letter Bible godly, holy one, saint, pious; kind, merciful, gracious
understand—see above
uprightness = צֶדֶק = ṣeḏeq Blue Letter Bible rightness, righteousness; justness; justness (of weights and measures); righteousness (in government); rectitude; what ought to be
equity—see above
fair dealing = מֵישָׁר = mêšār Blue Letter Bible evenness, uprightness, equity; level, smoothness, straightness; aright; sweetly; sincerity, probity; prosperity or concord; peace, friendship
happiness = טוֹב = ṭôḇ Blue Letter Bible good, pleasant, agreeable; excellent; rich, valuable in estimation; appropriate, becoming; happy, prosperous, kind, benign; right (ethical); welfare, prosperity, happiness
wisdom = חָכְמָה = ḥāḵmâ Blue Letter Bible a divine attribute or energy; cleverness; shrewdness; skill; prudence; cleverness; dexterity; wit; piety towards God
enter = בּוֹא = bô' Blue Letter Bible to go in, enter, come, go, come in; to bring in, cause to come in, gather, cause to come, bring near, bring upon; carry; fetch; follow; entering into specific relations; walk, associate with; attain to; cause to come in, gather; cause to come; brought in; eat; have intercourse with; come to pass, be fulfilled, accomplished; lead, bring in; gather (harvest)
heart= לֵב = lēḇ Blue Letter Bible inner man, mind, will, understanding; midst; soul; mind, knowledge, thinking, reflection, memory; inclination, resolution, determination (of will); conscience; seat of appetites, emotions, passions, courage; feelings, the will and even the intellect; the centre of anything
knowledge = דַּעַת = daʿaṯ Blue Letter Bible knowledge, perception, skill; discernment, understanding, wisdom; cunning; knowing; intelligence
soul = נֶפֶשׁ = nep̄eš Blue Letter Bible soul, self, life, creature, person, appetite, mind, living being, desire, emotion, passion; the inner being of man; seat of the appetites; seat of emotions and passions; the mode of feeling/acting, understanding and the faculty of thinking
delight = נָעֵם = nāʿēm Blue Letter Bible to be pleasant, be beautiful, be sweet, be delightful, be lovely; to be agreeable (literally or figuratively)
prudence = מְזִמָּה = mᵊzimmâ Blue Letter Bible purpose, discretion; sagacity; thought; counsel; power of devising
watch = שָׁמַר = šāmar Blue Letter Bible to keep, guard, observe, give heed; retain, treasure up (in memory); preserve; attend to
understanding = תָּבוּן = tāḇûn Blue Letter Bible understanding, intelligence; the act of understanding; skill; the faculty of understanding; insight; the object of knowledge; teacher (personification); discretion; reason; skillfulness; wisdom
guardian = נָצַר = nāṣar Blue Letter Bible watch over; observe, guard with fidelity; kept close, be blockaded; protect, maintain, obey; preserve
keep = נָצַל = nāṣal Blue Letter Bible to snatch away, deliver, rescue; to be torn out or away; defend; preserve; draw out, pull out
way = דֶּרֶךְ = dereḵ Blue Letter Bible way, road, distance, journey, manner; path; mode; habit, way; course of life; mode of action
evil = רַע = raʿ Blue Letter Bible bad, evil, disagreeable, malignant, unpleasant, giving pain, unhappiness, misery, displeasing; sad, unhappy; hurtful; unkind, vicious in disposition, wicked (ethically)
deceitful = תַּהְפֻּכוֹת = tahpuḵôṯ Blue Letter Bible perversity; deceit, fraud; foolishness
honesty = יֹשֶׁר = yōšer Blue Letter Bible straightness, uprightness; evenness (moral implications); equity, meet, right; what is right, what is due; what ought to be done; just and meet
darkness = חֹשֶׁךְ = ḥōšeḵ Blue Letter Bible darkness, night; extraordinary darkness; misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness; adversity, sadness; obscurity, secret place; dead, terror; mourning
keep = נָצַל = nāṣal Blue Letter Bible to snatch away, deliver, rescue; to be torn out or away; defend; preserve; draw out, pull out
stranger = זוּר = zûr Blue Letter Bible to be strange, be a stranger; to become estranged; foreigner, an enemy; loathsome; prostitute, harlot; alienated; profane; turn aside; depart; of another family; profligate
wheedling = חָלַק = ḥālaq Blue Letter Bible to divide, share, plunder, allot, apportion, assign; smooth, slippery, deceitful; flatter; despoil
tilting = שׁוּחַ= šûaḥ Blue Letter Bible to sink down; be bowed down, be humble; depression of the mind; incline; subside; sunk into mire
Death = מָוֶת = māveṯ Blue Letter Bible death, dying, Death (personified), realm of the dead; death by violence (as a penalty); state of death, place of death; place, abode of the dead, hades; figuratively, pestilence, ruin; destruction; opposed to life
life = חַי = ḥay Blue Letter Bible living, alive; green (of vegetation); flowing, fresh (of water); lively, active (of man); reviving (of the springtime); appetite; raw; springing; vigorous; prosperity, welfare; living one, fountain of life; community
tread = יָלַךְ = yālaḵ Blue Letter Bible to go, walk, come; to lead, bring, lead away, carry, cause to walk; journey; proceed
way = דֶּרֶךְ = dereḵ Blue Letter Bible way, road, distance, journey, manner; path; mode; habit, way; course of life; mode of action
good = טוֹב = ṭôḇ Blue Letter Bible good, pleasant, agreeable; excellent; rich, valuable in estimation; appropriate, becoming; happy, prosperous, kind, benign; right (ethical); welfare, prosperity, happiness
paths = אֹרַח = 'ōraḥ Blue Letter Bible way, path; road; way of living; a well-trodden road; by-, high-) way; course of living and acting; way of living; mode of living, or of character
upright = צַדִּיק = ṣadîq Blue Letter Bible lawful, righteous; righteous (in government); righteous (in conduct and character); righteous (as justified and vindicated by God); honest, virtuous, pious
land = אֶרֶץ = 'ereṣ Blue Letter Bible land, earth; country, territory, district, region; ground, soil; field; from an unused root probably meaning to be firm; element of the earth; earthy
honest = יָשָׁר = yāšār Blue Letter Bible straight, upright, correct, right; level, pleasing; straightforward, just, upright, fitting, proper; righteous; even
innocent = תָּמִים = tāmîm. Blue letter Bible complete, whole, entire, sound; wholesome, unimpaired, innocent, having integrity; what is complete or entirely in accord with truth and fact; entire; without blemish; sincerely (-ity), sound, without spot, undefiled, upright(-ly); safe, secure
wicked = רָשָׁע = rāšāʿ Blue Letter Bible guilty one, one guilty of crime; hostile to God; against God or man; morally wrong; ungodly; unrighteous
faithless = בָּגַד = bagad Blue Letter Bible deceitful;; faithless, offend; to act covert; unfaithful; fraudulent; to oppress, to afflict, to spoil; perfidious
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