Proverbs 1
1 Proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel:
[the] proverbs of Solomon [the] son of David [the] king of Israel.
2 to know wisdom and instruction; to discern the words of understanding;
To learn wisdom and discipline to teach words of understanding.
3 to receive the instruction of wisdom, righteousness and judgment, and equity;
To receive correction of insight righteousness and justice and uprightness.
4 to give prudence to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
To give to naive people prudence to a youth knowledge and discretion.
5 He that is wise will hear, and will increase learning; and the intelligent will gain wise counsels:
Let him listen a prudent [one] and let him increase insight and a discerning [one] wise directions let him get.
6 to understand a proverb and an allegory, the words of the wise and their enigmas.
To understand a proverb and an enigma [the] words of learned ones and parables their.
7 The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge: fools despise wisdom and instruction.
[the] fear of Yahweh [is the] beginning of knowledge wisdom and discipline fools they despise.
8 Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the teaching of thy mother;
Listen to O son my [the] correction of father your and may not you reject [the] instruction of mother your.
9 for they shall be a garland of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
For - [will be] a wreath of favor they for head your and necklaces for neck your.
10 My son, if sinners entice thee, consent not.
O son my if they will entice you sinners may not you 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 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 swallow them up alive as Sheol, and whole, as those that go down into the pit; (Sheol h7585)
Let us engulf them like Sheol alive and complete like [those who] go down of [the] pit. (Sheol h7585)
13 we shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
All wealth prized we will find we will fill houses our plunder.
14 cast in thy lot among us; we will all have one purse:
Lot your you will cast in midst of us a bag one it will belong to all of us.
15 — my son, walk not in the way with them, keep back thy foot from their path;
O son my may not you walk in [the] way with them restrain foot your from pathway their.
16 for their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.
For feet their to evil they run and they may make haste to shed blood.
17 For in vain the net is spread in the sight of anything which hath wings.
For in vain [is] spread out the net in [the] eyes of every owner of a wing.
18 And these lay wait for their own blood; they lurk secretly for their own lives.
And they for own blood their they lie in wait they lie hidden for own life their.
19 So are the paths of every one that is greedy of gain: it taketh away the life of its possessors.
[are] thus [the] paths of Every [one who] gains unjustly unjust gain [the] life of owners its it will take.
20 Wisdom crieth without; she raiseth her voice in the broadways;
Wisdom in the street it cries aloud in the open places she gives voice her.
21 she calleth in the chief [place] of concourse, in the entry of the gates; in the city she uttereth her words:
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, simple ones, will ye love simpleness, and scorners take pleasure in their scorning, and the foolish hate 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 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour forth my spirit unto you, I will make known to you my words.
You will turn back to rebuke my here! I will pour out to you spirit my let me declare words my you.
24 Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one regarded;
Because I called and you refused I offered hand my and there not [was] an attentive [one].
25 and ye have rejected all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
And you ignored all advice my and rebuke my not you yielded to.
26 I also will laugh in your calamity, I will mock when your fear cometh;
Also I at calamity your I will laugh I will mock when comes dread your.
27 when your fear cometh as sudden destruction, and your calamity cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come upon 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 will they call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me early, and shall not find me.
Then they will call to me and not I will answer they will earnestly seek me and not they will find me.
29 Because they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of Jehovah;
Because for they hated knowledge and [the] fear of Yahweh not they chose.
30 they would none of my counsel, they despised all my reproof:
Not they yielded to advice my they spurned all rebuke my.
31 therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their way, and be filled with their own devices.
So they may eat from [the] fruit of way their and from own schemes their they will be surfeited.
32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of the foolish shall cause them to perish.
For [the] waywardness of naive people it will ruin them and [the] ease of fools it will destroy them.
33 But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be at rest from fear of evil.
And [one who] listens to me he will dwell security and he will be at ease from dread of trouble.
