Proverbs 1
1 The proverbs of Solomon, son of David, King of Israel:
[the] proverbs of Solomon [the] son of David [the] king of Israel.
2 For the knowledge of wisdom and correction, for discerning the sayings of intelligence;
To learn wisdom and discipline to teach words of understanding.
3 For receiving the correction of prudence, righteousness and justice, and equity;
To receive correction of insight righteousness and justice and uprightness.
4 For giving To the simple shrewdness, To the young man, knowledge and discretion.
To give to naive people prudence to a youth knowledge and discretion.
5 A wise man, will hear, and will increase learning, and a, discreet man, wise counsels, will acquire,
Let him listen a prudent [one] and let him increase insight and a discerning [one] wise directions let him get.
6 By gaining discernment of proverb, and satire, the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
To understand a proverb and an enigma [the] words of learned ones and parables their.
7 The reverence of Yahweh, is the beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and correction, the foolish have despised.
[the] fear of Yahweh [is the] beginning of knowledge wisdom and discipline fools they despise.
8 Hear, my son, the correction of thy father, and do not reject the instruction 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 beauty, shall they be to thy head, and chains of ornament, to 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, do not consent.
O son my if they will entice you sinners may not you be willing.
11 If they say—Come with us, —Let us lie in wait for blood, Let us watch in secret for him who is needlessly 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 Let us engulf them, like hades, alive, While in health, like them who are going down to the pit; (Sheol h7585)
Let us engulf them like Sheol alive and complete like [those who] go down of [the] pit. (Sheol h7585)
13 All costly substance, shall we find, We shall fill our houses with spoil;
All wealth prized we will find we will fill houses our plunder.
14 Thy lot, shalt thou cast into our midst, One purse, shall there 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, do not walk in 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, to mischief, do run, and haste to the shedding of blood.
For feet their to evil they run and they may make haste to shed blood.
17 Surely, in vain, is spread the net, in the sight of aught that hath wings!
For in vain [is] spread out the net in [the] eyes of every owner of a wing.
18 Yet, they, for their own blood, lie in wait, They watch in secret for their own life.
And they for own blood their they lie in wait they lie hidden for own life their.
19 Such are the ways of every one that graspeth with greed, The life of the owners thereof, it taketh away!
[are] thus [the] paths of Every [one who] gains unjustly unjust gain [the] life of owners its it will take.
20 Wisdom, in the open place, soundeth forth, in the broadways, she raiseth her voice;
Wisdom in the street it cries aloud in the open places she gives voice her.
21 At the head of bustling streets, she crieth aloud, —at the openings of the gates in the city—her sayings, she doth utter: —
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, scoffers, in scoffing, delight them? and, dullards, 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 Will ye turn, at my reproof? Lo! I will pour out to you my spirit, I will make known my words to 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 called, and ye refused, I 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 But ye dismissed all my counsel, and, to my rebuke, would not yield,
And you ignored all advice my and rebuke my not you yielded to.
26 I also, at your calamity, will laugh, I will mock, when cometh your dread;
Also I at calamity your I will laugh I will mock when comes dread your.
27 When cometh as a crashing your dread, and, your calamity, as a storm-wind, overtaketh, when there come upon you, distress and anguish.
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 diligently, but 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, the reverence of Yahweh, did not choose;
Because for they hated knowledge and [the] fear of Yahweh not they chose.
30 Consented not to my counsel, disdained all my rebuke,
Not they yielded to advice my they spurned all rebuke my.
31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and, with their own counsels, be filled.
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, will slay them, —and, the carelessness of dullards, will destroy them.
For [the] waywardness of naive people it will ruin them and [the] ease of fools it will destroy them.
33 Whereas, he that hearkeneth unto me, shall dwell safely, and be at rest, without dread of misfortune.
And [one who] listens to me he will dwell security and he will be at ease from dread of trouble.
