Proverbs 1
1 [the] proverbs of Solomon [the] son of David [the] king of Israel.
These are the proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel,
2 To learn wisdom and discipline to teach words of understanding.
for gaining wisdom and discipline, for comprehending words of insight,
3 To receive correction of insight righteousness and justice and uprightness.
and for receiving instruction in wise living and in righteousness, justice, and equity.
4 To give to naive people prudence to a youth knowledge and discretion.
To impart prudence to the simple and knowledge and discretion to the young,
5 Let him listen a prudent [one] and let him increase insight and a discerning [one] wise directions let him get.
let the wise listen and gain instruction, and the discerning acquire wise counsel
6 To understand a proverb and an enigma [the] words of learned ones and parables their.
by understanding the proverbs and parables, the sayings and riddles of the wise.
7 [the] fear of Yahweh [is the] beginning of knowledge wisdom and discipline fools they despise.
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
8 Listen to O son my [the] correction of father your and may not you reject [the] instruction of mother your.
Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.
9 For - [will be] a wreath of favor they for head your and necklaces for neck your.
For they are a garland of grace on your head and a pendant around your neck.
10 O son my if they will entice you sinners may not you be willing.
My son, if sinners entice you, do not yield to them.
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 along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush 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 alive like Sheol, and whole like those descending into the Pit. (Sheol h7585)
13 All wealth prized we will find we will fill houses our plunder.
We will find all manner of precious goods; we will fill our houses with plunder.
14 Lot your you will cast in midst of us a bag one it will belong to all of us.
Throw in your lot with us; let us all share one purse”—
15 O son my may not you walk in [the] way with them restrain foot your from pathway their.
my son, do not walk the road with them or set foot upon 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 are swift to shed blood.
17 For in vain [is] spread out the net in [the] eyes of every owner of a wing.
How futile it is to spread the net where any bird can see it!
18 And they for own blood their they lie in wait they lie hidden for own life their.
But they lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own lives.
19 [are] thus [the] paths of Every [one who] gains unjustly unjust gain [the] life of owners its it will take.
Such is the fate of all who are greedy, whose unjust gain takes the lives of its possessors.
20 Wisdom in the street it cries aloud in the open places she gives voice her.
Wisdom calls out in the street, she lifts her voice in the square;
21 At [the] top of noisy [places] she calls out at [the] entrances of [the] gates in the city sayings her she utters.
in the main concourse she cries aloud, at the city gates she makes her speech:
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, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn 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.
If you had repented at my rebuke, then surely I would have poured out my spirit on you; I would have made my words known to you.
24 Because I called and you refused I offered hand my and there not [was] an attentive [one].
Because you refused my call, and no one took my outstretched hand,
25 And you ignored all advice my and rebuke my not you yielded to.
because you neglected all my counsel, and wanted none of my correction,
26 Also I at calamity your I will laugh I will mock when comes dread your.
in turn I will mock your calamity; I will sneer when terror strikes you,
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 dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm 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 they will call on me, but I will not answer; they will earnestly seek me, but will not find me.
29 Because for they hated knowledge and [the] fear of Yahweh not they chose.
For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the LORD.
30 Not they yielded to advice my they spurned all rebuke my.
They accepted 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.
So they will eat 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 waywardness of the simple will slay them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them.
33 And [one who] listens to me he will dwell security and he will be at ease from dread of trouble.
But whoever listens to me will dwell in safety, secure from the fear of evil.”
