Proverbs 1
1 These are the proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel,
proverb Solomon son: child David king Israel
2 for gaining wisdom and discipline, for comprehending words of insight,
to/for to know wisdom and discipline: instruction to/for to understand word understanding
3 and for receiving instruction in wise living and in righteousness, justice, and equity.
to/for to take: recieve discipline: instruction be prudent righteousness and justice and uprightness
4 To impart prudence to the simple and knowledge and discretion to the young,
to/for to give: give to/for simple craftiness to/for youth knowledge and plot
5 let the wise listen and gain instruction, and the discerning acquire wise counsel
to hear: hear wise and to add teaching and to understand counsel to buy
6 by understanding the proverbs and parables, the sayings and riddles of the wise.
to/for to understand proverb and mockery word wise and riddle their
7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
fear LORD first: beginning knowledge wisdom and discipline: instruction fool(ish) to despise
8 Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.
to hear: hear son: child my discipline: instruction father your and not to leave instruction mother your
9 For they are a garland of grace on your head and a pendant around your neck.
for wreath favor they(masc.) to/for head your and necklace to/for neck your
10 My son, if sinners entice you, do not yield to them.
son: child my if to entice you sinner not be willing
11 If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush 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 alive like Sheol, and whole like those descending 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 will find all manner of precious goods; we will fill our houses with plunder.
all substance precious to find to fill house: home our spoil
14 Throw in your lot with us; let us all share one purse”—
allotted your to fall: deserting in/on/with midst our purse one to be to/for all our
15 my son, do not walk the road with them or set foot upon 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 are swift to shed blood.
for foot their to/for bad: evil to run: run and to hasten to/for to pour: kill blood
17 How futile it is to spread the net where any bird can see it!
for for nothing to scatter [the] net in/on/with eye: seeing all master: [master of] wing
18 But they lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own lives.
and they(masc.) to/for blood their to ambush to treasure to/for soul: life their
19 Such is the fate of all who are greedy, whose unjust gain takes the lives of its possessors.
so way all to cut off: to gain unjust-gain [obj] soul: life master his to take: take
20 Wisdom calls out in the street, she lifts her voice in the square;
wisdom in/on/with outside to sing in/on/with street/plaza to give: cry out voice her
21 in the main concourse she cries aloud, at the city gates she makes her speech:
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, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn 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 If you had repented at my rebuke, then surely I would have poured out my spirit on you; I would have made 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 you refused my call, and no one took my outstretched hand,
because to call: call to and to refuse to stretch hand my and nothing to listen
25 because you neglected all my counsel, and wanted none of my correction,
and to neglect all counsel my and argument my not be willing
26 in turn I will mock your calamity; I will sneer when terror strikes you,
also I in/on/with calamity your to laugh to mock in/on/with to come (in): come dread your
27 when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm 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 on me, but I will not answer; they will earnestly seek me, but will not find me.
then to call: call to me and not to answer to seek me and not to find me
29 For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the LORD.
underneath: because of for to hate knowledge and fear LORD not to choose
30 They accepted none of my counsel; they despised all my reproof.
not be willing to/for counsel my to spurn all argument my
31 So they will eat 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 waywardness of the simple will slay them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them.
for faithlessness simple to kill them and ease fool to perish them
33 But whoever listens to me will dwell in safety, secure from the fear of evil.”
and to hear: hear to/for me to dwell security and to rest from dread distress: harm
