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1 proverb Solomon son: child David king Israel
Proverbs of Solomon, 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 discern 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, righteousness and judgment, and equity;
4 to/for to give: give to/for simple craftiness to/for youth knowledge and plot
to give prudence 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
He that is wise will hear, and will increase learning; and the intelligent will gain wise counsels:
6 to/for to understand proverb and mockery word wise and riddle their
to understand a proverb and an allegory, the words of the wise and their enigmas.
7 fear LORD first: beginning knowledge wisdom and discipline: instruction fool(ish) to despise
The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge: fools despise wisdom and instruction.
8 to hear: hear son: child my discipline: instruction father your and not to leave instruction mother your
Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the teaching of thy mother;
9 for wreath favor they(masc.) to/for head your and necklace to/for neck your
for they shall be a garland 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 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 secretly 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 Sheol, 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; we will 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 in the way with them, keep back 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 they make haste to shed blood.
17 for for nothing to scatter [the] net in/on/with eye: seeing all master: [master of] wing
For in vain the net is spread in the sight of anything which hath wings.
18 and they(masc.) to/for blood their to ambush to treasure to/for soul: life their
And these lay wait for their own blood; they lurk secretly 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 paths of every one that is greedy of gain: it taketh away the life of its possessors.
20 wisdom in/on/with outside to sing in/on/with street/plaza to give: cry out voice her
Wisdom crieth without; she raiseth her voice in the broadways;
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 calleth in the chief [place] of concourse, in the entry of the gates; in the city she uttereth her words:
22 till how simple to love: lover simplicity and to mock scorning to desire to/for them and fool to hate knowledge
How long, simple ones, will ye love simpleness, and scorners take pleasure in their scorning, and the foolish 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 forth my spirit unto you, I will make known to you my words.
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 one regarded;
25 and to neglect all counsel my and argument my not be willing
and ye have rejected 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 in 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 sudden destruction, and your calamity cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come upon you:
28 then to call: call to me and not to answer to seek me and not to find me
— then will they call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me early, and shall not find me.
29 underneath: because of for to hate knowledge and fear LORD not to choose
Because they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of Jehovah;
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 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 the foolish shall cause them to perish.
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 at rest from fear of evil.

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