Proverbs 1
1 [the] proverbs of Solomon [the] son of David [the] king of Israel.
The Parables of Salomon the sonne of Dauid King of Israel,
2 To learn wisdom and discipline to teach words of understanding.
To knowe wisdome, and instruction, to vnderstand ye wordes of knowledge,
3 To receive correction of insight righteousness and justice and uprightness.
To receiue instruction to do wisely, by iustice and iudgement and equitie,
4 To give to naive people prudence to a youth knowledge and discretion.
To giue vnto the simple, sharpenesse of wit, and to the childe knowledge and discretion.
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 heare and increase in learning, and a man of vnderstanding shall attayne vnto wise counsels,
6 To understand a proverb and an enigma [the] words of learned ones and parables their.
To vnderstand a parable, and the interpretation, the wordes of ye wise, and their darke sayings.
7 [the] fear of Yahweh [is the] beginning of knowledge wisdom and discipline fools they despise.
The feare of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fooles despise wisedome and instruction.
8 Listen to O son my [the] correction of father your and may not you reject [the] instruction of mother your.
My sonne, heare thy fathers instruction, and forsake not thy mothers teaching.
9 For - [will be] a wreath of favor they for head your and necklaces for neck your.
For they shalbe a comely ornament vnto thine head, and as chaines for thy necke.
10 O son my if they will entice you sinners may not you be willing.
My sonne, if sinners doe intise 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 vs, we will lay waite for blood, and lie priuilie for the innocent without a cause:
12 Let us engulf them like Sheol alive and complete like [those who] go down of [the] pit. (Sheol h7585)
We wil swallow them vp aliue like a graue euen whole, as those that goe downe into the pit: (Sheol h7585)
13 All wealth prized we will find we will fill houses our plunder.
We shall finde all precious riches, and fill our houses with spoyle:
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 vs: we will all haue one purse:
15 O son my may not you walk in [the] way with them restrain foot your from pathway their.
My sonne, walke not thou in the way with them: refraine thy foote from their path.
16 For feet their to evil they run and they may make haste to shed blood.
For their feete runne to euill, and make haste to shed blood.
17 For in vain [is] spread out the net in [the] eyes of every owner of a wing.
Certainely as without cause the net is spred before the eyes of all that hath wing:
18 And they for own blood their they lie in wait they lie hidden for own life their.
So they lay waite for blood and lie priuily for their liues.
19 [are] thus [the] paths of Every [one who] gains unjustly unjust gain [the] life of owners its it will take.
Such are the wayes of euery one that is greedy of gaine: he would take away the life of the owners thereof.
20 Wisdom in the street it cries aloud in the open places she gives voice her.
Wisdome cryeth without: she vttereth her voyce in the streetes.
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 hye streete, among the prease in the entrings of the gates, and vttereth her wordes in the citie, 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 ye foolish, howe long will ye loue foolishnes? and the scornefull take their pleasure in scorning, and the fooles 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.
(Turne you at my correction: loe, I will powre out my mind vnto you, and make you vnderstand my wordes)
24 Because I called and you refused I offered hand my and there not [was] an attentive [one].
Because I haue called, and ye refused: I haue stretched out mine hand, and none woulde regarde.
25 And you ignored all advice my and rebuke my not you yielded to.
But ye haue despised all my counsell, and would none of my correction.
26 Also I at calamity your I will laugh I will mock when comes dread your.
I will also laugh at your destruction, and mocke, when your feare commeth.
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.
Whe your feare cometh like sudden desolation, and your destruction shall come like a whirle wind: whe affliction and anguish shall come vpon 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 vpon me, but I will not answere: they shall seeke me early, but they shall not finde me,
29 Because for they hated knowledge and [the] fear of Yahweh not they chose.
Because they hated knowledge, and did not chuse the feare of the Lord.
30 Not they yielded to advice my they spurned all rebuke my.
They would none of my counsell, but despised all my correction.
31 So they may eat from [the] fruit of way their and from own schemes their they will be surfeited.
Therefore shall they eate of ye fruite of their owne way, and be filled with their owne deuises.
32 For [the] waywardness of naive people it will ruin them and [the] ease of fools it will destroy them.
For ease slaieth the foolish, and the prosperitie of fooles destroyeth 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 obeyeth me, shall dwell safely, and be quiet from feare of euill.
