Proverbs 1
1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
The proverbs of Solomon, son of David, King of Israel:
2 To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
For the knowledge of wisdom and correction, for discerning the sayings of intelligence;
3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
For receiving the correction of prudence, righteousness and justice, and equity;
4 To give subtlety to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
For giving To the simple shrewdness, To the young man, knowledge and discretion.
5 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
A wise man, will hear, and will increase learning, and a, discreet man, wise counsels, will acquire,
6 To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
By gaining discernment of proverb, and satire, the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
The reverence of Yahweh, is the beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and correction, the foolish have despised.
8 My son, hear the instruction of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother:
Hear, my son, the correction of thy father, and do not reject the instruction of thy mother;
9 For they shall be an ornament of grace unto your head, and chains about your neck.
For, a wreath of beauty, shall they be to thy head, and chains of ornament, to thy neck.
10 My son, if sinners entice you, consent you not.
My son, if sinners entice thee, do not consent.
11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privately for the innocent without cause:
If they say—Come with us, —Let us lie in wait for blood, Let us watch in secret for him who is needlessly innocent;
12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: (Sheol h7585)
Let us engulf them, like hades, alive, While in health, like them who are going down to the pit; (Sheol h7585)
13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
All costly substance, shall we find, We shall fill our houses with spoil;
14 Cast in your lot among us; let us all have one purse:
Thy lot, shalt thou cast into our midst, One purse, shall there be, for us all.
15 My son, walk not you in the way with them; refrain your foot from their path:
My son, do not walk in the way with them, Withhold thy foot from their path.
16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
For, their feet, to mischief, do run, and haste to the shedding of blood.
17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
Surely, in vain, is spread the net, in the sight of aught that hath wings!
18 And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privately for their own lives.
Yet, they, for their own blood, lie in wait, They watch in secret for their own life.
19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which takes away the life of the owners thereof.
Such are the ways of every one that graspeth with greed, The life of the owners thereof, it taketh away!
20 Wisdom cries without; she utters her voice in the streets:
Wisdom, in the open place, soundeth forth, in the broadways, she raiseth her voice;
21 She cries in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she utters her words, saying,
At the head of bustling streets, she crieth aloud, —at the openings of the gates in the city—her sayings, she doth utter: —
22 How long, all of you simple ones, will all of you love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and, scoffers, in scoffing, delight them? and, dullards, hate knowledge?
23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
Will ye turn, at my reproof? Lo! I will pour out to you my spirit, I will make known my words to you.
24 Because I have called, and all of you refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
Because I called, and ye refused, I stretched out my hand, and no one regarded;
25 But all of you have set at nothing all my counsel, and refused my reproof:
But ye dismissed all my counsel, and, to my rebuke, would not yield,
26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear comes;
I also, at your calamity, will laugh, I will mock, when cometh your dread;
27 When your fear comes as desolation, and your destruction comes as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish comes upon you.
When cometh as a crashing your dread, and, your calamity, as a storm-wind, overtaketh, when there come upon you, distress and anguish.
28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
Then, will they call me, but I will not answer, they will seek me diligently, but shall not find me.
29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
Because they hated knowledge, and, the reverence of Yahweh, did not choose;
30 They refused my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
Consented not to my counsel, disdained all my rebuke,
31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and, with their own counsels, be filled.
32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
For, the turning away of the simple, will slay them, —and, the carelessness of dullards, will destroy them.
33 But whoso hearkens unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.
Whereas, he that hearkeneth unto me, shall dwell safely, and be at rest, without dread of misfortune.
