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Proverbs

Chapter 02

{David to Solomon}
1``My son, if you accept my doctrines {'emer},
and treasure/'store up' my commandments . . .

2``If you make your ear attentive
to wisdom/'bible doctrine applied to experience' {chokmah},
and apply your 'right lobe'/heart to discernment {tabuwn} . . .

3``If you call to doctrine
  {biynah - 'doctrine in the right lobe'},
and cry aloud to discernment {tabuwn} . . .

4``If you seek her as you do silver,
  {doctrine - the primary Hebrew word for doctrine is famine so 'she'
  is used often for doctrine the analogy is the male being the
  aggressor and seeking out the female- doctrine.}
and search for her {doctrine} as for treasures . . .

5``Then you shall perceive/understand {biyn}
the respect/'awe of' Jehovah/God
  {an idiom for being Occupied in your thinking with the God and His
  Word}
and attain/find the knowledge {da`ath} of 'Elohiym/Godhead.

6``For Jehovah/God gives
wisdom/'application of doctrine' {chokmah}.
  {nathan - the verb of grace - He gives it without 'strings'}
Knowledge and understanding are 'out of His Mouth' {peh}.

7``He 'lays up'/'treasures up' 'sound wisdom' {tuwshiyah}
for the righteous/upright {yashar}.

He is a shield to those
who 'Walk righteously'/'live blamelessly'.

8``He guards the paths of justice . . .
protecting the Way
of 'those loyal to Him'/'His faithful ones' {chaciyd}.

9``You will then understand
righteousness/justice
  {tsedeq - referring to your general motus operendi in life}
'divine institutions'/judgment
  {mishpat - referring to the 4 divine institutions and how they
  operate}
'but always with integrity'/'and equity'
  {meyshar - means personal integrity - your Word should be your
  Bond} . . .
every good Path/'course of living {as unto God}'.

10~~For doctrine/wisdom/chokmah
  {divine viewpoint from the intake of the Word}
will enter into your 'right lobe'/heart,
and knowledge {of doctrine}
will be pleasant to your soul.

11-14~~Application {of doctrine} will guard you.

Understanding {of doctrine} will watch over you . . . 12~~

To deliver you from the Way of evil . . .

From the man who speaks distorted things
  {anything that is against the divine viewpoint expressed in the
  Word of God} . . .13~~

Who leave the Ways of Righteousness . . .

To wander in the Ways of darkness/'dark-out of the soul' . . . 14~~

Who delight in doing evil . . .

And find happiness in the distortions of evil.

15`` Whose ways . . .{are} crooked and distorted in their paths.
  {do not follow the righteous Way of God - as expressed in the
  principals of bible doctrine}

16``She {knowledge of bible doctrine through study of His Word}
will save/deliver you from the 'strange woman' . . .
  {in context here is 'false doctrine' - but has physical application as
  well}

 even from the stranger
'who flatters with her words'/'whose talk is smooth'.

{Note: A person without doctrine in their soul usually is arrogant
and self-centered. A person with false doctrine easily seduces this type of person to follow them. The Phallic cult was one that used beautiful women to seduce men into 'sex in conjunction with idolatry'.}

17``Who forsakes the companion/guide { 'alluwph} of her youth . . .

and forgets the covenant/contract {b@riyth}
of her 'Elohiym/Godhead.

{Note: This 'lady of false doctrine' leaves the teaching of her youth, forsakes God, and follows other ideas or gods - or really any substitute for God and His teaching.}

18``Her house sinks down to Death . . .

And her paths/course leads to the dead/shades/'spirits of the dead' {rapha'}.

19``All that go to her {teachers of false doctrine}
can not return . . .

Neither can they find again the paths of life.
  {referring to coming back to God and His Truth and Walking in the
  Righteous Ways of God - they become deluded. They believe the
  lie and reject God. Each time they reject God, scare tissue goes
  on their souls, until they no longer have the ability to believe the
  Truth - then they have hardness of heart and are ready to die the
  sin unto death.}

20``So, Walk/follow in the Way of the good . . .

And keep/guard {shamar} the paths of the righteous/just.
  {what you consider valuable you guard - so value the doctrine in
  your soul and keep it always}

21``For the upright will inhabit the land/earth {'erets} . . .

And the 'spiritually mature'/'those who demonstrate integrity'
  {tamiym - understanding and applying divine viewpoint to
  experiences in life}
shall remain in it.

22``While the wicked
shall vanish/'be cut off' from the land/earth . . .

And the treacherous {bagad} shall be rooted out of it.