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.
For knowing wisdom and instruction, For understanding sayings of intelligence,
3 To receive correction of insight righteousness and justice and uprightness.
For receiving the instruction of wisdom, Righteousness, judgment, and uprightness,
4 To give to naive people prudence to a youth knowledge and discretion.
For giving to simple ones—prudence, To a youth—knowledge and discretion.
5 Let him listen a prudent [one] and let him increase insight and a discerning [one] wise directions let him get.
(The wise hear and increase learning, And the intelligent obtain counsels.)
6 To understand a proverb and an enigma [the] words of learned ones and parables their.
For understanding a proverb and its sweetness, Words of the wise and their acute sayings.
7 [the] fear of Yahweh [is the] beginning of knowledge wisdom and discipline fools they despise.
Fear of YHWH [is the] beginning of knowledge, Fools have despised 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 your father, And do not leave the law of your mother,
9 For - [will be] a wreath of favor they for head your and necklaces for neck your.
For they [are] a graceful wreath to your head, And chains to 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 be willing.
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, we lay wait for blood, We watch 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)
We swallow them as Sheol—alive, And whole—as those going down [to] the pit, (Sheol h7585)
13 All wealth prized we will find we will fill houses our plunder.
We find every precious substance, We 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.
You cast your lot among us, One purse is—to all of us.”
15 O son my may not you walk in [the] way with them restrain foot your from pathway their.
My son! Do not go in the way with them, Withhold your 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 hurry to shed blood.
17 For in vain [is] spread out the net in [the] eyes of every owner of a wing.
Surely in vain is the net spread out before the eyes of any bird.
18 And they for own blood their they lie in wait they lie hidden for own life their.
And they lay wait for their own blood, They watch 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 gainer of dishonest gain, It takes the life of its owners.
20 Wisdom in the street it cries aloud in the open places she gives voice her.
Wisdom cries aloud in an out-place, She gives forth her voice in broad places,
21 At [the] top of noisy [places] she calls out at [the] entrances of [the] gates in the city sayings her she utters.
She calls at the head of the multitudes, In the openings of the gates, In the city she says her sayings:
22 Until when? - O naive people will you love naivete and mockers mockery do they delight in? themselves and fools will they hate? knowledge.
“Until when, you simple, do you love simplicity? And have scorners desired their scorning? And do 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.
Turn back at my reproof, behold, I pour forth my spirit to you, I make known my words with you.
24 Because I called and you refused I offered hand my and there not [was] an attentive [one].
Because I have called, and you refuse, I stretched out my hand, and none is attending,
25 And you ignored all advice my and rebuke my not you yielded to.
And you slight all my counsel, And you have not desired my reproof.
26 Also I at calamity your I will laugh I will mock when comes dread your.
I also laugh in your calamity, I deride when your fear comes,
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 as destruction, And your calamity comes as a windstorm, When adversity and distress 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 they call me, and I do not answer, They seek me earnestly, and do not find me.
29 Because for they hated knowledge and [the] fear of Yahweh not they chose.
Because that they have hated knowledge, And have not chosen the fear of YHWH.
30 Not they yielded to advice my they spurned all rebuke my.
They have not consented to my counsel, They have despised all my reproof,
31 So they may eat from [the] fruit of way their and from own schemes their they will be surfeited.
And they eat of the fruit of their way, And they are filled from their own counsels.
32 For [the] waywardness of naive people it will ruin them and [the] ease of fools it will destroy them.
For the turning of the simple slays them, And the security of the foolish destroys them.
33 And [one who] listens to me he will dwell security and he will be at ease from dread of trouble.
And whoever is listening to me dwells confidently, And [is] quiet from fear of evil!”
