Proverbs 1
1 [the] proverbs of Solomon [the] son of David [the] king of Israel.
The parables 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:
3 To receive correction of insight righteousness and justice and uprightness.
To understand the words of prudence: and to receive the instruction of doctrine, justice, and judgment, and equity:
4 To give to naive people prudence to a youth knowledge and discretion.
To give subtilty to little ones, to the young man knowledge and understanding.
5 Let him listen a prudent [one] and let him increase insight and a discerning [one] wise directions let him get.
A wise man shall hear and shall be wiser: and he that understandeth, shall possess governments.
6 To understand a proverb and an enigma [the] words of learned ones and parables their.
He shall understand a parable, and the interpretation, the words of the wise, and their mysterious sayings.
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 wisdom. 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.
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.
That grace may be added to thy head, and a chain of gold to thy neck.
10 O son my if they will entice you sinners may not you be willing.
My son, if sinners shall entice thee, consent not 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 shall say: Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us hide snares 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 him up alive like hell, and whole as one that goeth 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 spoils.
14 Lot your you will cast in midst of us a bag one it will belong to all of us.
Cast in thy lot with us, let us 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 with them, restrain thy foot from their paths.
16 For feet their to evil they run and they may make haste to shed blood.
For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
17 For in vain [is] spread out the net in [the] eyes of every owner of a wing.
But a net is spread in vain before the eyes of them that have wings.
18 And they for own blood their they lie in wait they lie hidden for own life their.
And they themselves lie in wait for their own blood, and practise deceits against their own souls.
19 [are] thus [the] paths of Every [one who] gains unjustly unjust gain [the] life of owners its it will take.
So the wage of every covetous man destroy the souls of the possessors.
20 Wisdom in the street it cries aloud in the open places she gives voice her.
Wisdom preacheth abroad, she uttereth her voice in the streets:
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 multitudes she crieth out, in the entrance of the gates of the city she uttereth her words, saying:
22 Until when? - O naive people will you love naivete and mockers mockery do they delight in? themselves and fools will they hate? knowledge.
O children, how long will you love childishness, and fools covet those things which are hurtful to themselves, and the unwise 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 ye at my reproof: behold I will utter my spirit to you, and will shew you my words.
24 Because I called and you refused I offered hand my and there not [was] an attentive [one].
Because I called, and you refused: I stretched out my hand, and there was none that regarded.
25 And you ignored all advice my and rebuke my not you yielded to.
You have despised all my counsel, and have neglected my reprehensions.
26 Also I at calamity your I will laugh I will mock when comes dread your.
I also will laugh in your destruction, and will mock when that shall come to you which you feared.
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 sudden calamity shall fall on you, and destruction, as a tempest, shall be at hand: when tribulation and distress shall 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 shall they call upon me, and I will not hear: they shall rise in the morning and shall not find me:
29 Because for they hated knowledge and [the] fear of Yahweh not they chose.
Because they have hated instruction and received not the fear of the Lord,
30 Not they yielded to advice my they spurned all rebuke my.
Nor consented to my counsel, but 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 they shall eat the fruit of their own way, and shall 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.
The turning away of little ones shall kill them, and the prosperity 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 he that shall hear me, shall rest without terror, and shall enjoy abundance, without fear of evils.
