Proverbs 1
1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel,
proverb Solomon son: child David king Israel
2 to know wisdom and instruction, to discern the words of understanding,
to/for to know wisdom and discipline: instruction to/for to understand word understanding
3 to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness and justice and equity,
to/for to take: recieve discipline: instruction be prudent righteousness and justice and uprightness
4 to give prudence to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion,
to/for to give: give to/for simple craftiness to/for youth knowledge and plot
5 that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning, and that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsels,
to hear: hear wise and to add teaching and to understand counsel to buy
6 to understand a proverb, and a figure, the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
to/for to understand proverb and mockery word wise and riddle their
7 The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge. The foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
fear LORD first: beginning knowledge wisdom and discipline: instruction fool(ish) to despise
8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother.
to hear: hear son: child my discipline: instruction father your and not to leave instruction mother your
9 For they shall be a garland of grace to thy head, and chains about thy neck.
for wreath favor they(masc.) to/for head your and necklace to/for neck your
10 My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
son: child my if to entice you sinner not be willing
11 If they say, Come with us. Let us lay wait for blood. Let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause.
if to say to go: come [emph?] with us to ambush to/for blood to treasure to/for innocent for nothing
12 Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, and whole, as those who go down into the pit. (Sheol h7585)
to swallow up them like/as hell: Sheol alive and unblemished: complete like/as to go down pit (Sheol h7585)
13 We shall find all precious substance. We shall fill our houses with spoil.
all substance precious to find to fill house: home our spoil
14 Thou shall cast thy lot among us. We will all have one bag.
allotted your to fall: deserting in/on/with midst our purse one to be to/for all our
15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them. Restrain thy foot from their path.
son: child my not to go: walk in/on/with way: journey with them to withhold foot your from path their
16 For their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.
for foot their to/for bad: evil to run: run and to hasten to/for to pour: kill blood
17 For in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird,
for for nothing to scatter [the] net in/on/with eye: seeing all master: [master of] wing
18 and these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.
and they(masc.) to/for blood their to ambush to treasure to/for soul: life their
19 So are the ways of everyone who is greedy of gain. It takes away the life of the owners of it.
so way all to cut off: to gain unjust-gain [obj] soul: life master his to take: take
20 Wisdom cries aloud in the street. She utters her voice in the broad places.
wisdom in/on/with outside to sing in/on/with street/plaza to give: cry out voice her
21 She cries in the chief place of concourse, at the entrance of the gates, in the city. She utters her words:
in/on/with head: top to roar to call: call out in/on/with entrance gate in/on/with city word her to say
22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And scoffers delight them in scoffing, and fools hate knowledge?
till how simple to love: lover simplicity and to mock scorning to desire to/for them and fool to hate knowledge
23 Turn back at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit upon you. I will make my words known to you.
to return: repent to/for argument my behold to bubble to/for you spirit my to know word my [obj] you
24 Because I have called, and ye have refused, I have stretched out my hand, and no man has regarded,
because to call: call to and to refuse to stretch hand my and nothing to listen
25 but ye have made all my counsel void, and want none of my reproof,
and to neglect all counsel my and argument my not be willing
26 I also will laugh at your calamity. I will mock when your fear comes,
also I in/on/with calamity your to laugh to mock in/on/with to come (in): come dread your
27 when your fear comes as a storm, and your calamity comes on as a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you.
in/on/with to come (in): come (like/as devastation *Q(K)*) dread your and calamity your like/as whirlwind to come in/on/with to come (in): come upon you distress and anguish
28 Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they shall not find me,
then to call: call to me and not to answer to seek me and not to find me
29 because they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of Jehovah.
underneath: because of for to hate knowledge and fear LORD not to choose
30 They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof.
not be willing to/for counsel my to spurn all argument my
31 Therefore they shall eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
and to eat from fruit way: journey their and from counsel their to satisfy
32 For the backsliding of the simple shall kill them, and the careless ease of fools shall destroy them.
for faithlessness simple to kill them and ease fool to perish them
33 But he who hearkens to me shall dwell securely, and shall be quiet without fear of evil.
and to hear: hear to/for me to dwell security and to rest from dread distress: harm
