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.
to know wisdom and instruction; to discern the words of understanding;
3 To receive correction of insight righteousness and justice and uprightness.
to receive the instruction of wisdom, righteousness and judgment, 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.
He that is wise will hear, and will increase learning; and the intelligent will gain wise counsels:
6 To understand a proverb and an enigma [the] words of learned ones and parables their.
to understand a proverb and an allegory, the words of the wise and their enigmas.
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: fools 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.
Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the teaching 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 garland 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 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 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)
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.
cast in 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 in the way with them, keep back 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 the net is spread in the sight of anything which hath wings.
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 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 one that is greedy of gain: it taketh away the life of its possessors.
20 Wisdom in the street it cries aloud in the open places she gives voice her.
Wisdom crieth without; she raiseth her voice in the broadways;
21 At [the] top of noisy [places] she calls out at [the] entrances of [the] gates in the city sayings her she utters.
she calleth in the chief [place] of concourse, in the entry 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, simple ones, will ye love simpleness, and scorners take pleasure in their scorning, and the foolish 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 forth my spirit unto you, I will make known to you my words.
24 Because I called and you refused I offered hand my and there not [was] an attentive [one].
Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one regarded;
25 And you ignored all advice my and rebuke my not you yielded to.
and ye have rejected 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 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 sudden destruction, and your calamity cometh 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 early, and shall not find me.
29 Because for they hated knowledge and [the] fear of Yahweh not they chose.
Because 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 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 turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of the foolish shall cause them to perish.
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 safely, and shall be at rest from fear of evil.
