Proverbs 1
1 proverb Solomon son: child David king Israel
These are the (proverbs/wise sayings) that come from Solomon, the King of Israel, who was the son of [King] David.
2 to/for to know wisdom and discipline: instruction to/for to understand word understanding
(These proverbs [PRS] can teach people/By studying these proverbs, people can learn) how to be wise and how to obey what these proverbs teach them. They will [also] help people to understand which teachings are wise.
3 to/for to take: recieve discipline: instruction be prudent righteousness and justice and uprightness
These proverbs [PRS] will teach you how to discipline/control yourselves, how to conduct your lives, and how to do what is right and just [DOU].
4 to/for to give: give to/for simple craftiness to/for youth knowledge and plot
They will show [people] who do not [yet] know much how to do things that are smart. They will show young people how to become wise and how to make good plans/decisions.
5 to hear: hear wise and to add teaching and to understand counsel to buy
Those who are wise should also pay attention [to these proverbs], in order to become more wise, and those who understand [these teachings] will receive good advice/guidance.
6 to/for to understand proverb and mockery word wise and riddle their
Then they will be able to understand the meaning of proverbs and parables/metaphors, these wise sayings and (riddles/sayings that are difficult to understand).
7 fear LORD first: beginning knowledge wisdom and discipline: instruction fool(ish) to despise
If [you want to be] wise, you must begin by revering Yahweh. [Only] foolish people despise wisdom and good advice/discipline.
8 to hear: hear son: child my discipline: instruction father your and not to leave instruction mother your
My son, pay attention to what [I], your father, am teaching you. And do not reject what your mother teaches you.
9 for wreath favor they(masc.) to/for head your and necklace to/for neck your
What we teach you [will make you respected like having] a lovely turban around your head and [like] a [beautiful] necklace to put around your neck.
10 son: child my if to entice you sinner not be willing
My son, if sinners tempt/entice you [to do what is wrong], say “No” to them.
11 if to say to go: come [emph?] with us to ambush to/for blood to treasure to/for innocent for nothing
They may say, “Come with us! Join us! We will hide and then kill [MTY] someone [who passes by]. We will ambush some helpless/innocent people.
12 to swallow up them like/as hell: Sheol alive and unblemished: complete like/as to go down pit (Sheol h7585)
We will kill them [HYP] and get rid of them completely, [just] like [people who are buried in] graves are gone forever. While they are in good health, we will send them to the place where dead people are. (Sheol h7585)
13 all substance precious to find to fill house: home our spoil
And we will seize all the things that they own. We will fill our houses with these things!
14 allotted your to fall: deserting in/on/with midst our purse one to be to/for all our
[So], come with us! Join our group! We will share with you the things that we steal.”
15 son: child my not to go: walk in/on/with way: journey with them to withhold foot your from path their
My son, do not accompany them! Do not walk on the roads with them!
16 for foot their to/for bad: evil to run: run and to hasten to/for to pour: kill blood
They rush to do evil deeds! They hurry to murder [MTY] people.
17 for for nothing to scatter [the] net in/on/with eye: seeing all master: [master of] wing
It is useless to put out a (trap/net to catch a bird) because when a bird sees it, [it stays away from it].
18 and they(masc.) to/for blood their to ambush to treasure to/for soul: life their
But those wicked people are not like the birds, [because they do not realize] that when they prepare to ambush someone to kill him, they will be killed themselves!
19 so way all to cut off: to gain unjust-gain [obj] soul: life master his to take: take
That is what happens to people who eagerly try to get things [by violently attacking others]. They will only destroy themselves!
20 wisdom in/on/with outside to sing in/on/with street/plaza to give: cry out voice her
Wisdom [PRS] shouts to people in the streets, and calls out to people in the (plazas/town squares).
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
Wisdom calls out in noisy places, and at the entrances to cities.
22 till how simple to love: lover simplicity and to mock scorning to desire to/for them and fool to hate knowledge
[Wisdom says], “How long will you stupid people continue to enjoy doing foolish things [RHQ]? How long will you people who ridicule God enjoy doing that [RHQ]? How long will you foolish people refuse to know [what things are right] [RHQ]?
23 to return: repent to/for argument my behold to bubble to/for you spirit my to know word my [obj] you
If you pay attention to me when I rebuke you, I will tell you what I am thinking in my inner being; I will give you some good advice.
24 because to call: call to and to refuse to stretch hand my and nothing to listen
But when I called to you, you refused to listen. I beckoned to you to come to me, but you ignored me.
25 and to neglect all counsel my and argument my not be willing
I tried to advise you, but you refused to listen to me. I tried to correct you, but you rejected what I told you.
26 also I in/on/with calamity your to laugh to mock in/on/with to come (in): come dread your
So [now], when you are experiencing troubles/disasters, I will laugh at you. When things happen that cause you to be afraid, I will make fun of you.
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 calamities strike you like a big storm, when disasters hit you like a violent wind, when [all kinds of things] distress you and give you trouble, [I will ridicule you!]
28 then to call: call to me and not to answer to seek me and not to find me
[Wisdom also says], “When foolish people call to me [to help them], I will not answer them. They will search for me diligently/everywhere, but they will not find me.
29 underneath: because of for to hate knowledge and fear LORD not to choose
They refused to know [what things are right], and they decided not to revere Yahweh.
30 not be willing to/for counsel my to spurn all argument my
They would not accept my advice, and they did not pay attention when I tried to correct them.
31 and to eat from fruit way: journey their and from counsel their to satisfy
So they will endure what will result [MET, DOU] from the evil way they have lived/behaved and the evil things they have planned to do.
32 for faithlessness simple to kill them and ease fool to perish them
Those who turn away from me are stupid/foolish; they will die because of doing that.
33 and to hear: hear to/for me to dwell security and to rest from dread distress: harm
But those who pay attention to me will live peacefully and safely, and they will not be afraid that something will harm them.”
