Proverbs 1
1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, the king of Israel:
[the] proverbs of Solomon [the] son of David [the] king of Israel.
2 To know wisdom and instruction; to comprehend the sayings of understanding;
To learn wisdom and discipline to teach words of understanding.
3 To accept the instruction of intelligence, righteousness, and justice, and equity;
To receive correction of insight righteousness and justice and uprightness.
4 To give to the simple prudence, to the youth knowledge and discretion.
To give to naive people prudence to a youth knowledge and discretion.
5 The wise will hear, and will increase [his] information; and the man of understanding will obtain 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 a sage sentence; the words of the wise, and their riddles.
To understand a proverb and an enigma [the] words of learned ones and parables their.
7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: wisdom and instruction fools [alone] despise.
[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 cast not off 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 a wreath of grace are they unto thy head, and chains for thy throat.
For - [will be] a wreath of favor they for head your and necklaces for neck your.
10 My son, if sinners wish to entice thee, consent thou not.
O son my if they will entice you sinners may not you be willing.
11 If they should say, Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us watch in concealment for the uselessly innocent;
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 will swallow them up like the grave alive; and the men of integrity, 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 [kinds of] precious wealth, we will fill our houses with booty;
All wealth prized we will find we will fill houses our plunder.
14 Thy lot must thou cast in our midst; one purse shall be for us all:
Lot your you will cast in midst of us a bag one it will belong to all of us.
15 My son, walk not thou on the way with them; withhold 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 after 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 uselessly is the net spread out before the eyes of every winged bird:
For in vain [is] spread out the net in [the] eyes of every owner of a wing.
18 While they lie in wait for their [own] blood; they watch in concealment 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 after [unlawful] gain; it taketh away the life of those that own it.
[are] thus [the] paths of Every [one who] gains unjustly unjust gain [the] life of owners its it will take.
20 Wisdom crieth loudly without; in the public places she uttereth her voice;
Wisdom in the street it cries aloud in the open places she gives voice her.
21 At the corner of noisy streets she calleth, at the entrances of gates; in the city she sayeth her speeches:
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, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners take their delight in scorning, and fools 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 back to my admonition: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
You will turn back to rebuke my here! I will pour out to you spirit my let me declare words my you.
24 Whereas I called, and ye refused; I stretched out my hand, and no man was attentive;
Because I called and you refused I offered hand my and there not [was] an attentive [one].
25 And ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would not accept my admonition:
And you ignored all advice my and rebuke my not you yielded to.
26 [Therefore] I also will truly laugh at your calamity; I will deride [you] when your terror cometh;
Also I at calamity your I will laugh I will mock when comes dread your.
27 When your terror cometh like the tempest-cloud, and your calamity hasteneth like a whirlwind; when there come upon you distress and affliction.
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 me, but I will not answer; they will seek me earnestly, but they 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 For the reason that they hated knowledge, and the fear of the Lord they did not choose;
Because for they hated knowledge and [the] fear of Yahweh not they chose.
30 [That] they would not attend to my counsel: [that] they rejected all my admonition.
Not they yielded to advice my they spurned all rebuke my.
31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and from their own counsels shall they be satisfied.
So they may eat from [the] fruit of way their and from own schemes their they will be surfeited.
32 For the defection of the simple will slay them, and the prosperity of fools will cause them to be lost.
For [the] waywardness of naive people it will ruin them and [the] ease of fools it will destroy them.
33 But he that hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be at rest from the dread of evil.
And [one who] listens to me he will dwell security and he will be at ease from dread of trouble.
