Proverbs 1
1 proverb Solomon son: child David king Israel
The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
2 to/for to know wisdom and discipline: instruction to/for to understand word understanding
To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
3 to/for to take: recieve discipline: instruction be prudent righteousness and justice and uprightness
To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
4 to/for to give: give to/for simple craftiness to/for youth knowledge and plot
To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
5 to hear: hear wise and to add teaching and to understand counsel to buy
A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
6 to/for to understand proverb and mockery word wise and riddle their
To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
7 fear LORD first: beginning knowledge wisdom and discipline: instruction fool(ish) to despise
The fear of Yhwh is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
8 to hear: hear son: child my discipline: instruction father your and not to leave instruction mother your
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
9 for wreath favor they(masc.) to/for head your and necklace to/for neck your
For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
10 son: child my if to entice you sinner not be willing
My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
11 if to say to go: come [emph?] with us to ambush to/for blood to treasure to/for innocent for nothing
If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
12 to swallow up them like/as hell: Sheol alive and unblemished: complete like/as to go down pit (Sheol h7585)
Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: (Sheol h7585)
13 all substance precious to find to fill house: home our spoil
We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
14 allotted your to fall: deserting in/on/with midst our purse one to be to/for all our
Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
15 son: child my not to go: walk in/on/with way: journey with them to withhold foot your from path their
My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
16 for foot their to/for bad: evil to run: run and to hasten to/for to pour: kill blood
For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
17 for for nothing to scatter [the] net in/on/with eye: seeing all master: [master of] wing
Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
18 and they(masc.) to/for blood their to ambush to treasure to/for soul: life their
And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
19 so way all to cut off: to gain unjust-gain [obj] soul: life master his to take: take
So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
20 wisdom in/on/with outside to sing in/on/with street/plaza to give: cry out voice her
Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
21 in/on/with head: top to roar to call: call out in/on/with entrance gate in/on/with city word her to say
She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,
22 till how simple to love: lover simplicity and to mock scorning to desire to/for them and fool to hate knowledge
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
23 to return: repent to/for argument my behold to bubble to/for you spirit my to know word my [obj] you
Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
24 because to call: call to and to refuse to stretch hand my and nothing to listen
Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
25 and to neglect all counsel my and argument my not be willing
But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
26 also I in/on/with calamity your to laugh to mock in/on/with to come (in): come dread your
I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
27 in/on/with to come (in): come (like/as devastation *Q(K)*) dread your and calamity your like/as whirlwind to come in/on/with to come (in): come upon you distress and anguish
When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
28 then to call: call to me and not to answer to seek me and not to find me
Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
29 underneath: because of for to hate knowledge and fear LORD not to choose
For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of Yhwh:
30 not be willing to/for counsel my to spurn all argument my
They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
31 and to eat from fruit way: journey their and from counsel their to satisfy
Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
32 for faithlessness simple to kill them and ease fool to perish them
For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
33 and to hear: hear to/for me to dwell security and to rest from dread distress: harm
But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.
