Proverbs 1
1 The Parables of Salomon the sonne of Dauid King of Israel,
[the] proverbs of Solomon [the] son of David [the] king of Israel.
2 To knowe wisdome, and instruction, to vnderstand ye wordes of knowledge,
To learn wisdom and discipline to teach words of understanding.
3 To receiue instruction to do wisely, by iustice and iudgement and equitie,
To receive correction of insight righteousness and justice and uprightness.
4 To giue vnto the simple, sharpenesse of wit, and to the childe knowledge and discretion.
To give to naive people prudence to a youth knowledge and discretion.
5 A wise man shall heare and increase in learning, and a man of vnderstanding shall attayne vnto wise counsels,
Let him listen a prudent [one] and let him increase insight and a discerning [one] wise directions let him get.
6 To vnderstand a parable, and the interpretation, the wordes of ye wise, and their darke sayings.
To understand a proverb and an enigma [the] words of learned ones and parables their.
7 The feare of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fooles despise wisedome and instruction.
[the] fear of Yahweh [is the] beginning of knowledge wisdom and discipline fools they despise.
8 My sonne, heare thy fathers instruction, and forsake not thy mothers teaching.
Listen to O son my [the] correction of father your and may not you reject [the] instruction of mother your.
9 For they shalbe a comely ornament vnto thine head, and as chaines for thy necke.
For - [will be] a wreath of favor they for head your and necklaces for neck your.
10 My sonne, if sinners doe intise thee, consent thou not.
O son my if they will entice you sinners may not you be willing.
11 If they say, Come with vs, we will lay waite for blood, and lie priuilie for the innocent without a 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 We wil swallow them vp aliue like a graue euen whole, as those that goe downe 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 finde all precious riches, and fill our houses with spoyle:
All wealth prized we will find we will fill houses our plunder.
14 Cast in thy lot among vs: we will all haue one purse:
Lot your you will cast in midst of us a bag one it will belong to all of us.
15 My sonne, walke not thou in the way with them: refraine thy foote from their path.
O son my may not you walk in [the] way with them restrain foot your from pathway their.
16 For their feete runne to euill, and make haste to shed blood.
For feet their to evil they run and they may make haste to shed blood.
17 Certainely as without cause the net is spred before the eyes of all that hath wing:
For in vain [is] spread out the net in [the] eyes of every owner of a wing.
18 So they lay waite for blood and lie priuily for their liues.
And they for own blood their they lie in wait they lie hidden for own life their.
19 Such are the wayes of euery one that is greedy of gaine: he would take away the life of the owners thereof.
[are] thus [the] paths of Every [one who] gains unjustly unjust gain [the] life of owners its it will take.
20 Wisdome cryeth without: she vttereth her voyce in the streetes.
Wisdom in the street it cries aloud in the open places she gives voice her.
21 She calleth in the hye streete, among the prease in the entrings of the gates, and vttereth her wordes in the citie, saying,
At [the] top of noisy [places] she calls out at [the] entrances of [the] gates in the city sayings her she utters.
22 O ye foolish, howe long will ye loue foolishnes? and the scornefull take their pleasure in scorning, and the fooles 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 (Turne you at my correction: loe, I will powre out my mind vnto you, and make you vnderstand my wordes)
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 haue called, and ye refused: I haue stretched out mine hand, and none woulde regarde.
Because I called and you refused I offered hand my and there not [was] an attentive [one].
25 But ye haue despised all my counsell, and would none of my correction.
And you ignored all advice my and rebuke my not you yielded to.
26 I will also laugh at your destruction, and mocke, when your feare commeth.
Also I at calamity your I will laugh I will mock when comes dread your.
27 Whe your feare cometh like sudden desolation, and your destruction shall come like a whirle wind: whe affliction and anguish shall come vpon 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 shall they call vpon me, but I will not answere: they shall seeke me early, but they shall not finde 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 chuse the feare of the Lord.
Because for they hated knowledge and [the] fear of Yahweh not they chose.
30 They would none of my counsell, but despised all my correction.
Not they yielded to advice my they spurned all rebuke my.
31 Therefore shall they eate of ye fruite of their owne way, and be filled with their owne deuises.
So they may eat from [the] fruit of way their and from own schemes their they will be surfeited.
32 For ease slaieth the foolish, and the prosperitie of fooles destroyeth them.
For [the] waywardness of naive people it will ruin them and [the] ease of fools it will destroy them.
33 But he that obeyeth me, shall dwell safely, and be quiet from feare of euill.
And [one who] listens to me he will dwell security and he will be at ease from dread of trouble.
