< Proverbs 1 >
1 [the] proverbs of Solomon [the] son of David [the] king of Israel.
2 To learn wisdom and discipline to teach words of understanding.
3 To receive correction of insight righteousness and justice and uprightness.
4 To give to naive people 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.
6 To understand a proverb and an enigma [the] words of learned ones and parables their.
7 [the] fear of Yahweh [is the] beginning of knowledge wisdom and discipline fools they despise.
8 Listen to O son my [the] correction of father your and may not you reject [the] instruction of mother your.
9 For - [will be] a wreath of favor they for head your and necklaces for neck your.
10 O son my if they will entice you sinners may not you 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.
12 Let us engulf them like Sheol alive and complete like [those who] go down of [the] pit. (Sheol )
13 All wealth prized we will find we will fill houses our plunder.
14 Lot your you will cast in midst of us a bag one it will belong to all of us.
15 O son my may not you walk in [the] way with them restrain foot your from pathway their.
16 For feet their to evil they run and they may make haste to shed blood.
17 For in vain [is] spread out the net in [the] eyes of every owner of a wing.
18 And they for own blood their they lie in wait they lie hidden for own life their.
19 [are] thus [the] paths of Every [one who] gains unjustly unjust gain [the] life of owners its it will take.
20 Wisdom in the street it cries aloud in the open places she gives voice her.
21 At [the] top of noisy [places] she calls out at [the] entrances of [the] gates in the city sayings her she utters.
22 Until when? - O naive people will you love naivete and mockers mockery do they delight in? themselves and fools will they 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.
24 Because I called and you refused I offered hand my and there not [was] an attentive [one].
25 And you ignored all advice my and rebuke my not you yielded to.
26 Also I at calamity your I will laugh I will mock when comes dread your.
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.
28 Then they will call to me and not I will answer they will earnestly seek me and not they will find me.
29 Because for they hated knowledge and [the] fear of Yahweh not they chose.
30 Not they yielded to advice my they spurned all rebuke my.
31 So they may eat from [the] fruit of way their and from own schemes their they will be surfeited.
32 For [the] waywardness of naive people it will ruin them and [the] ease of fools it will destroy them.
33 And [one who] listens to me he will dwell security and he will be at ease from dread of trouble.
