Proverbs 1
1 The wise sayings of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel.
[the] proverbs of Solomon [the] son of David [the] king of Israel.
2 To have knowledge of wise teaching; to be clear about the words of reason:
To learn wisdom and discipline to teach words of understanding.
3 To be trained in the ways of wisdom, in righteousness and judging truly and straight behaviour:
To receive correction of insight righteousness and justice and uprightness.
4 To make the simple-minded sharp, and to give the young man knowledge, and serious purpose:
To give to naive people prudence to a youth knowledge and discretion.
5 (The wise man, hearing, will get greater learning, and the acts of the man of good sense will be wisely guided: )
Let him listen a prudent [one] and let him increase insight and a discerning [one] wise directions let him get.
6 To get the sense of wise sayings and secrets, and of the words of the wise and their dark sayings.
To understand a proverb and an enigma [the] words of learned ones and parables their.
7 The fear of the Lord is the start of knowledge: but the foolish have no use for wisdom and teaching.
[the] fear of Yahweh [is the] beginning of knowledge wisdom and discipline fools they despise.
8 My son, give ear to the training of your father, and do not give up the teaching of your mother:
Listen to O son my [the] correction of father your and may not you reject [the] instruction of mother your.
9 For they will be a crown of grace for your head, and chain-ornaments about your neck.
For - [will be] a wreath of favor they for head your and necklaces for neck your.
10 My son, if sinners would take you out of the right way, do not go with them.
O son my if they will entice you sinners may not you be willing.
11 If they say, Come with us; let us make designs against the good, waiting secretly for the upright, without cause;
If they will say come! with us let us lie in wait for blood let us lie hidden for an innocent [one] without cause.
12 Let us overcome them living, like the underworld, and in their strength, as those who go down to death; (Sheol h7585)
Let us engulf them like Sheol alive and complete like [those who] go down of [the] pit. (Sheol h7585)
13 Goods of great price will be ours, our houses will be full of wealth;
All wealth prized we will find we will fill houses our plunder.
14 Take your chance with us, and we will all have one money-bag:
Lot your you will cast in midst of us a bag one it will belong to all of us.
15 My son, do not go with them; keep your feet from their ways:
O son my may not you walk in [the] way with them restrain foot your from pathway their.
16 For their feet are running after evil, and they are quick to take a man's life.
For feet their to evil they run and they may make haste to shed blood.
17 Truly, to no purpose is the net stretched out before the eyes of the bird:
For in vain [is] spread out the net in [the] eyes of every owner of a wing.
18 And they are secretly waiting for their blood and making ready destruction for themselves.
And they for own blood their they lie in wait they lie hidden for own life their.
19 Such is the fate of everyone who goes in search of profit; it takes away the life of its owners.
[are] thus [the] paths of Every [one who] gains unjustly unjust gain [the] life of owners its it will take.
20 Wisdom is crying out in the street; her voice is loud in the open places;
Wisdom in the street it cries aloud in the open places she gives voice her.
21 Her words are sounding in the meeting-places, and in the doorways of the town:
At [the] top of noisy [places] she calls out at [the] entrances of [the] gates in the city sayings her she utters.
22 How long, you simple ones, will foolish things be dear to you? and pride a delight to the haters of authority? how long will the foolish go on hating knowledge?
Until when? - O naive people will you love naivete and mockers mockery do they delight in? themselves and fools will they hate? knowledge.
23 Be turned again by my sharp words: see, I will send the flow of my spirit on you, and make my words clear to you.
You will turn back to rebuke my here! I will pour out to you spirit my let me declare words my you.
24 Because your ears were shut to my voice; no one gave attention to my out-stretched hand;
Because I called and you refused I offered hand my and there not [was] an attentive [one].
25 You were not controlled by my guiding, and would have nothing to do with my sharp words:
And you ignored all advice my and rebuke my not you yielded to.
26 So in the day of your trouble I will be laughing; I will make sport of your fear;
Also I at calamity your I will laugh I will mock when comes dread your.
27 When your fear comes on you like a storm, and your trouble like a rushing wind; when pain and sorrow come on you.
When comes (like devastation *Q(K)*) dread your and calamity your like a storm-wind it will arrive when comes on you trouble and distress.
28 Then I will give no answer to their cries; searching for me early, they will not see me:
Then they will call to me and not I will answer they will earnestly seek me and not they will find me.
29 For they were haters of knowledge, and did not give their hearts to the fear of the Lord:
Because for they hated knowledge and [the] fear of Yahweh not they chose.
30 They had no desire for my teaching, and my words of protest were as nothing to them.
Not they yielded to advice my they spurned all rebuke my.
31 So the fruit of their way will be their food, and with the designs of their hearts they will be made full.
So they may eat from [the] fruit of way their and from own schemes their they will be surfeited.
32 For the turning back of the simple from teaching will be the cause of their death, and the peace of the foolish will be their destruction.
For [the] waywardness of naive people it will ruin them and [the] ease of fools it will destroy them.
33 But whoever gives ear to me will take his rest safely, living in peace without fear of evil.
And [one who] listens to me he will dwell security and he will be at ease from dread of trouble.
