Proverbs 1
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
For knowing wisdom and instruction, For understanding sayings of intelligence,
3 to/for to take: recieve discipline: instruction be prudent righteousness and justice and uprightness
For receiving the instruction of wisdom, Righteousness, judgment, and uprightness,
4 to/for to give: give to/for simple craftiness to/for youth knowledge and plot
For giving to simple ones—prudence, To a youth—knowledge and discretion.
5 to hear: hear wise and to add teaching and to understand counsel to buy
(The wise hear and increase learning, And the intelligent obtain counsels.)
6 to/for to understand proverb and mockery word wise and riddle their
For understanding a proverb and its sweetness, Words of the wise and their acute sayings.
7 fear LORD first: beginning knowledge wisdom and discipline: instruction fool(ish) to despise
Fear of YHWH [is the] beginning of knowledge, Fools have despised 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 your father, And do not leave the law of your mother,
9 for wreath favor they(masc.) to/for head your and necklace to/for neck your
For they [are] a graceful wreath to your head, And chains to your neck.
10 son: child my if to entice you sinner not be willing
My son, if sinners entice you, do not be willing.
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, we lay wait for blood, We watch 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)
We swallow them as Sheol—alive, And whole—as those going down [to] the pit, (Sheol h7585)
13 all substance precious to find to fill house: home our spoil
We find every precious substance, We fill our houses [with] spoil,
14 allotted your to fall: deserting in/on/with midst our purse one to be to/for all our
You cast your lot among us, One purse is—to all of us.”
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 go in the way with them, Withhold your 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 hurry to shed blood.
17 for for nothing to scatter [the] net in/on/with eye: seeing all master: [master of] wing
Surely in vain is the net spread out before the eyes 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 watch 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 gainer of dishonest gain, It takes the life of its owners.
20 wisdom in/on/with outside to sing in/on/with street/plaza to give: cry out voice her
Wisdom cries aloud in an out-place, She gives forth her voice in broad places,
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 calls at the head of the multitudes, In the openings of the gates, In the city she says her sayings:
22 till how simple to love: lover simplicity and to mock scorning to desire to/for them and fool to hate knowledge
“Until when, you simple, do you love simplicity? And have scorners desired their scorning? And do 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 back at my reproof, behold, I pour forth my spirit to you, I make known my words with you.
24 because to call: call to and to refuse to stretch hand my and nothing to listen
Because I have called, and you refuse, I stretched out my hand, and none is attending,
25 and to neglect all counsel my and argument my not be willing
And you slight all my counsel, And you have not desired 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 laugh in your calamity, I deride when your fear comes,
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 comes as destruction, And your calamity comes as a windstorm, When adversity and distress come on you.
28 then to call: call to me and not to answer to seek me and not to find me
Then they call me, and I do not answer, They seek me earnestly, and do not find me.
29 underneath: because of for to hate knowledge and fear LORD not to choose
Because that they have hated knowledge, And have not chosen the fear of YHWH.
30 not be willing to/for counsel my to spurn all argument my
They have not consented to my counsel, They have despised all my reproof,
31 and to eat from fruit way: journey their and from counsel their to satisfy
And they eat of the fruit of their way, And they are filled from their own counsels.
32 for faithlessness simple to kill them and ease fool to perish them
For the turning of the simple slays them, And the security of the foolish destroys them.
33 and to hear: hear to/for me to dwell security and to rest from dread distress: harm
And whoever is listening to me dwells confidently, And [is] quiet from fear of evil!”
