Proverbs 1
1 [the] proverbs of Solomon [the] son of David [the] king of Israel.
The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel:
2 To learn wisdom and discipline to teach words of understanding.
To know wisdom and instruction; To discern the words of understanding;
3 To receive correction of insight righteousness and justice and uprightness.
To receive instruction in wise dealing, In righteousness and justice and equity;
4 To give to naive people prudence to a youth knowledge and discretion.
To give prudence to the simple, To the young man knowledge and discretion:
5 Let him listen a prudent [one] and let him increase insight and a discerning [one] wise directions let him get.
That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; And that the man of understanding may attain unto sound counsels:
6 To understand a proverb and an enigma [the] words of learned ones and parables their.
To understand a proverb, and a figure, The words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
7 [the] fear of Yahweh [is the] beginning of knowledge wisdom and discipline fools they despise.
The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge; [But] the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
8 Listen to O son my [the] correction of father your and may not you reject [the] instruction of mother your.
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother:
9 For - [will be] a wreath of favor they for head your and necklaces for neck your.
For they shall be a chaplet of grace unto thy head, And chains about thy neck.
10 O son my if they will entice you sinners may not you be willing.
My son, if sinners entice thee, Consent thou not.
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, Let us lay wait for blood; Let us lurk privily 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)
Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, And whole, as those that go down into the pit; (Sheol h7585)
13 All wealth prized we will find we will fill houses our plunder.
We shall find all precious substance; We shall 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.
Thou shalt cast thy lot among us; We will all have one purse:
15 O son my may not you walk in [the] way with them restrain foot your from pathway their.
My son, walk not thou in the way with them; Refrain thy foot from their path:
16 For feet their to evil they run and they may make haste to shed blood.
For their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed blood.
17 For in vain [is] spread out the net in [the] eyes of every owner of a wing.
For in vain is the net spread In the sight of any bird:
18 And they for own blood their they lie in wait they lie hidden for own life their.
And these lay wait for their own blood; They lurk privily 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 ways of every one that is greedy of gain; It taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
20 Wisdom in the street it cries aloud in the open places she gives voice her.
Wisdom crieth aloud in the street; She uttereth her voice in the broad places;
21 At [the] top of noisy [places] she calls out at [the] entrances of [the] gates in the city sayings her she utters.
She crieth in the chief place of concourse; At the entrance of the gates, In the city, she uttereth her words:
22 Until when? - O naive people will you love naivete and mockers mockery do they delight in? themselves and fools will they hate? knowledge.
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And scoffers delight them in scoffing, And 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 you at my reproof: Behold, I will pour out my spirit upon you; I will make known my words unto 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 have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man hath regarded;
25 And you ignored all advice my and rebuke my not you yielded to.
But ye have set at nought all my counsel, And would none of my reproof:
26 Also I at calamity your I will laugh I will mock when comes dread your.
I also will laugh in [the day of] your calamity; I will mock 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 a storm, And your calamity cometh on as a whirlwind; When distress and anguish come upon you.
28 Then they will call to me and not I will answer they will earnestly seek me and not they will find me.
Then will they call upon me, but I will not answer; They will seek me diligently, but they shall not find me:
29 Because for they hated knowledge and [the] fear of Yahweh not they chose.
For that they hated knowledge, And did not choose the fear of Jehovah,
30 Not they yielded to advice my they spurned all rebuke my.
They would none of my counsel, They despised all my reproof.
31 So they may eat from [the] fruit of way their and from own schemes their they will be surfeited.
Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, And be filled with their own devices.
32 For [the] waywardness of naive people it will ruin them and [the] ease of fools it will destroy them.
For the backsliding of the simple shall slay them, And the careless ease of fools shall destroy them.
33 And [one who] listens to me he will dwell security and he will be at ease from dread of trouble.
But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell securely, And shall be quiet without fear of evil.
