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 For knowing wisdom and instruction, For understanding sayings of intelligence,
To learn wisdom and discipline to teach words of understanding.
3 For receiving the instruction of wisdom, Righteousness, judgment, and uprightness,
To receive correction of insight righteousness and justice and uprightness.
4 For giving to simple ones—prudence, To a youth—knowledge and discretion.
To give to naive people prudence to a youth knowledge and discretion.
5 (The wise hear and increase learning, And the intelligent obtain counsels.)
Let him listen a prudent [one] and let him increase insight and a discerning [one] wise directions let him get.
6 For understanding a proverb and its sweetness, Words of the wise and their acute sayings.
To understand a proverb and an enigma [the] words of learned ones and parables their.
7 Fear of YHWH [is the] beginning of knowledge, Fools have despised 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 your father, And do not leave the law 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 [are] a graceful wreath to your head, And chains to your neck.
For - [will be] a wreath of favor they for head your and necklaces for neck your.
10 My son, if sinners entice you, do not be willing.
O son my if they will entice you sinners may not you be willing.
11 If they say, “Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch 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.
Let us engulf them like Sheol alive and complete like [those who] go down of [the] pit. (Sheol h7585)
13 We find every precious substance, We fill our houses [with] spoil,
All wealth prized we will find we will fill houses our plunder.
14 You cast your lot among us, One purse is—to all of us.”
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 in the way with them, Withhold your 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 hurry to shed blood.
For feet their to evil they run and they may make haste to shed blood.
17 Surely in vain is the net spread out before the eyes of any bird.
For in vain [is] spread out the net in [the] eyes of every owner of a wing.
18 And they lay wait for their own blood, They watch 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 gainer of dishonest gain, It takes 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 cries aloud in an out-place, She gives forth her voice in broad places,
Wisdom in the street it cries aloud in the open places she gives voice her.
21 She calls at the head of the multitudes, In the openings of the gates, In the city she says her sayings:
At [the] top of noisy [places] she calls out at [the] entrances of [the] gates in the city sayings her she utters.
22 “Until when, you simple, do you love simplicity? And have scorners desired their scorning? And do 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 at my reproof, behold, I pour forth my spirit to you, I make known my words with 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 I have called, and you refuse, I stretched out my hand, and none is attending,
Because I called and you refused I offered hand my and there not [was] an attentive [one].
25 And you slight all my counsel, And you have not desired my reproof.
And you ignored all advice my and rebuke my not you yielded to.
26 I also laugh in your calamity, I deride when your fear comes,
Also I at calamity your I will laugh I will mock when comes dread your.
27 When your fear comes as destruction, And your calamity comes as a windstorm, When adversity and distress 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 they call me, and I do not answer, They seek me earnestly, and do 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 that they have hated knowledge, And have not chosen the fear of YHWH.
Because for they hated knowledge and [the] fear of Yahweh not they chose.
30 They have not consented to my counsel, They have despised all my reproof,
Not they yielded to advice my they spurned all rebuke my.
31 And they eat of the fruit of their way, And they are filled from their own counsels.
So they may eat from [the] fruit of way their and from own schemes their they will be surfeited.
32 For the turning of the simple slays them, And the security of the foolish destroys them.
For [the] waywardness of naive people it will ruin them and [the] ease of fools it will destroy them.
33 And whoever is listening to me dwells confidently, And [is] quiet from fear of evil!”
And [one who] listens to me he will dwell security and he will be at ease from dread of trouble.
