Proverbs 1
1 [the] proverbs of Solomon [the] son of David [the] king of Israel.
Proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel:
2 To learn wisdom and discipline to teach words of understanding.
For knowing wisdom and instruction, For understanding sayings of intelligence,
3 To receive correction of insight righteousness and justice and uprightness.
For receiving the instruction of wisdom, Righteousness, judgment, and uprightness,
4 To give to naive people prudence to a youth knowledge and discretion.
For giving to simple ones — prudence, To a youth — knowledge and discretion.
5 Let him listen a prudent [one] and let him increase insight and a discerning [one] wise directions let him get.
(The wise doth hear and increaseth learning, And the intelligent doth obtain counsels.)
6 To understand a proverb and an enigma [the] words of learned ones and parables their.
For understanding a proverb and its sweetness, Words of the wise and their acute sayings.
7 [the] fear of Yahweh [is the] beginning of knowledge wisdom and discipline fools they despise.
Fear of Jehovah [is] a beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and instruction fools have despised!
8 Listen to O son my [the] correction of father your and may not you reject [the] instruction of mother your.
Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother,
9 For - [will be] a wreath of favor they for head your and necklaces for neck your.
For a graceful wreath [are] they to thy head, And chains to thy neck.
10 O son my if they will entice you sinners may not you be willing.
My son, if sinners entice thee be not willing.
11 If they will say come! with us let us lie in wait for blood let us lie hidden for an innocent [one] without cause.
If they say, 'Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause,
12 Let us engulf them like Sheol alive and complete like [those who] go down of [the] pit. (Sheol h7585)
We swallow them as Sheol — alive, And whole — as those going down [to] the pit, (Sheol h7585)
13 All wealth prized we will find we will fill houses our plunder.
Every precious substance we find, We fill our houses [with] spoil,
14 Lot your you will cast in midst of us a bag one it will belong to all of us.
Thy lot thou dost cast among us, One purse is — to all of us.'
15 O son my may not you walk in [the] way with them restrain foot your from pathway their.
My son! go not in the way with them, Withhold thy foot from their path,
16 For feet their to evil they run and they may make haste to shed blood.
For their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed blood.
17 For in vain [is] spread out the net in [the] eyes of every owner of a wing.
Surely in vain is the net spread out before the eyes of any bird.
18 And they for own blood their they lie in wait they lie hidden for own life their.
And they for their own blood lay wait, They watch secretly for their own lives.
19 [are] thus [the] paths of Every [one who] gains unjustly unjust gain [the] life of owners its it will take.
So [are] the paths of every gainer of dishonest gain, The life of its owners it taketh.
20 Wisdom in the street it cries aloud in the open places she gives voice her.
Wisdom in an out-place crieth aloud, In broad places she giveth forth her voice,
21 At [the] top of noisy [places] she calls out at [the] entrances of [the] gates in the city sayings her she utters.
At the head of the multitudes she calleth, In the openings of the gates, In the city her sayings she saith:
22 Until when? - O naive people will you love naivete and mockers mockery do they delight in? themselves and fools will they hate? knowledge.
'Till when, ye simple, do ye love simplicity? And have scorners their scorning desired? And do fools hate knowledge?
23 You will turn back to rebuke my here! I will pour out to you spirit my let me declare words my you.
Turn back at my reproof, lo, I pour forth to you my spirit, I make known my words with you.
24 Because I called and you refused I offered hand my and there not [was] an attentive [one].
Because I have called, and ye refuse, I stretched out my hand, and none is attending,
25 And you ignored all advice my and rebuke my not you yielded to.
And ye slight all my counsel, And my reproof ye have not desired.
26 Also I at calamity your I will laugh I will mock when comes dread your.
I also in your calamity do laugh, I deride when your fear cometh,
27 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.
When your fear cometh as destruction, And your calamity as a hurricane doth come, When on you come adversity and distress.
28 Then they will call to me and not I will answer they will earnestly seek me and not they will find me.
Then they call me, and I do not answer, They seek me earnestly, and find me not.
29 Because for they hated knowledge and [the] fear of Yahweh not they chose.
Because that they have hated knowledge, And the fear of Jehovah have not chosen.
30 Not they yielded to advice my they spurned all rebuke my.
They have not consented to my counsel, They have despised all my reproof,
31 So they may eat from [the] fruit of way their and from own schemes their they will be surfeited.
And they eat of the fruit of their way, And from their own counsels they are filled.
32 For [the] waywardness of naive people it will ruin them and [the] ease of fools it will destroy them.
For the turning of the simple slayeth them, And the security of the foolish destroyeth them.
33 And [one who] listens to me he will dwell security and he will be at ease from dread of trouble.
And whoso is hearkening to me dwelleth confidently, And [is] quiet from fear of evil!'
