Proverbs 1
1 [the] proverbs of Solomon [the] son of David [the] king of Israel.
The wise sayings of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel.
2 To learn wisdom and discipline to teach words of understanding.
To have knowledge of wise teaching; to be clear about the words of reason:
3 To receive correction of insight righteousness and justice and uprightness.
To be trained in the ways of wisdom, in righteousness and judging truly and straight behaviour:
4 To give to naive people prudence to a youth knowledge and discretion.
To make the simple-minded sharp, and to give the young man knowledge, and serious purpose:
5 Let him listen a prudent [one] and let him increase insight and a discerning [one] wise directions let him get.
(The wise man, hearing, will get greater learning, and the acts of the man of good sense will be wisely guided: )
6 To understand a proverb and an enigma [the] words of learned ones and parables their.
To get the sense of wise sayings and secrets, and of 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 the Lord is the start of knowledge: but the foolish have no use for wisdom and teaching.
8 Listen to O son my [the] correction of father your and may not you reject [the] instruction of mother your.
My son, give ear to the training of your father, and do not give up the teaching of your mother:
9 For - [will be] a wreath of favor they for head your and necklaces for neck your.
For they will be a crown of grace for your head, and chain-ornaments about your neck.
10 O son my if they will entice you sinners may not you be willing.
My son, if sinners would take you out of the right way, do not go with 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 with us; let us make designs against the good, waiting secretly for the upright, without cause;
12 Let us engulf them like Sheol alive and complete like [those who] go down of [the] pit. (Sheol h7585)
Let us overcome them living, like the underworld, and in their strength, as those who go down to death; (Sheol h7585)
13 All wealth prized we will find we will fill houses our plunder.
Goods of great price will be ours, our houses will be full of wealth;
14 Lot your you will cast in midst of us a bag one it will belong to all of us.
Take your chance with us, and we will all have one money-bag:
15 O son my may not you walk in [the] way with them restrain foot your from pathway their.
My son, do not go with them; keep your feet from their ways:
16 For feet their to evil they run and they may make haste to shed blood.
For their feet are running after evil, and they are quick to take a man's life.
17 For in vain [is] spread out the net in [the] eyes of every owner of a wing.
Truly, to no purpose is the net stretched out before the eyes of the bird:
18 And they for own blood their they lie in wait they lie hidden for own life their.
And they are secretly waiting for their blood and making ready destruction for themselves.
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 everyone who goes in search of profit; it takes away the life of its owners.
20 Wisdom in the street it cries aloud in the open places she gives voice her.
Wisdom is crying out in the street; her voice is loud in the open places;
21 At [the] top of noisy [places] she calls out at [the] entrances of [the] gates in the city sayings her she utters.
Her words are sounding in the meeting-places, and in the doorways of the town:
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, you simple ones, will foolish things be dear to you? and pride a delight to the haters of authority? how long will the foolish go on hating knowledge?
23 You will turn back to rebuke my here! I will pour out to you spirit my let me declare words my you.
Be turned again by my sharp words: see, I will send the flow of my spirit on you, and make my words clear to you.
24 Because I called and you refused I offered hand my and there not [was] an attentive [one].
Because your ears were shut to my voice; no one gave attention to my out-stretched hand;
25 And you ignored all advice my and rebuke my not you yielded to.
You were not controlled by my guiding, and would have nothing to do with my sharp words:
26 Also I at calamity your I will laugh I will mock when comes dread your.
So in the day of your trouble I will be laughing; I will make sport of your fear;
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 comes on you like a storm, and your trouble like a rushing wind; when pain and sorrow come on 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 I will give no answer to their cries; searching for me early, they will not see me:
29 Because for they hated knowledge and [the] fear of Yahweh not they chose.
For they were haters of knowledge, and did not give their hearts to the fear of the Lord:
30 Not they yielded to advice my they spurned all rebuke my.
They had no desire for my teaching, and my words of protest were as nothing to them.
31 So they may eat from [the] fruit of way their and from own schemes their they will be surfeited.
So the fruit of their way will be their food, and with the designs of their hearts they will be made full.
32 For [the] waywardness of naive people it will ruin them and [the] ease of fools it will destroy them.
For the turning back of the simple from teaching will be the cause of their death, and the peace of the foolish will be their destruction.
33 And [one who] listens to me he will dwell security and he will be at ease from dread of trouble.
But whoever gives ear to me will take his rest safely, living in peace without fear of evil.
