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1 Proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel:
proverb Solomon son: child David king Israel
2 For knowing wisdom and instruction, For understanding sayings of intelligence,
to/for to know wisdom and discipline: instruction to/for to understand word understanding
3 For receiving the instruction of wisdom, Righteousness, judgment, and uprightness,
to/for to take: recieve discipline: instruction be prudent righteousness and justice and uprightness
4 For giving to simple ones — prudence, To a youth — knowledge and discretion.
to/for to give: give to/for simple craftiness to/for youth knowledge and plot
5 (The wise doth hear and increaseth learning, And the intelligent doth obtain counsels.)
to hear: hear wise and to add teaching and to understand counsel to buy
6 For understanding a proverb and its sweetness, Words of the wise and their acute sayings.
to/for to understand proverb and mockery word wise and riddle their
7 Fear of Jehovah [is] a beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and instruction fools have despised!
fear LORD first: beginning knowledge wisdom and discipline: instruction fool(ish) to despise
8 Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother,
to hear: hear son: child my discipline: instruction father your and not to leave instruction mother your
9 For a graceful wreath [are] they to thy head, And chains to thy neck.
for wreath favor they(masc.) to/for head your and necklace to/for neck your
10 My son, if sinners entice thee be not willing.
son: child my if to entice you sinner not be willing
11 If they say, 'Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause,
if to say to go: come [emph?] with us to ambush to/for blood to treasure to/for innocent for nothing
12 We swallow them as Sheol — alive, And whole — as those going down [to] the pit, (Sheol )
to swallow up them like/as hell: Sheol alive and unblemished: complete like/as to go down pit (Sheol )
13 Every precious substance we find, We fill our houses [with] spoil,
all substance precious to find to fill house: home our spoil
14 Thy lot thou dost cast among us, One purse is — to all of us.'
allotted your to fall: deserting in/on/with midst our purse one to be to/for all our
15 My son! go not in the way with them, Withhold thy foot from their path,
son: child my not to go: walk in/on/with way: journey with them to withhold foot your from path their
16 For their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed blood.
for foot their to/for bad: evil to run: run and to hasten to/for to pour: kill blood
17 Surely in vain is the net spread out before the eyes of any bird.
for for nothing to scatter [the] net in/on/with eye: seeing all master: [master of] wing
18 And they for their own blood lay wait, They watch secretly for their own lives.
and they(masc.) to/for blood their to ambush to treasure to/for soul: life their
19 So [are] the paths of every gainer of dishonest gain, The life of its owners it taketh.
so way all to cut off: to gain unjust-gain [obj] soul: life master his to take: take
20 Wisdom in an out-place crieth aloud, In broad places she giveth forth her voice,
wisdom in/on/with outside to sing in/on/with street/plaza to give: cry out voice her
21 At the head of the multitudes she calleth, In the openings of the gates, In the city her sayings she saith:
in/on/with head: top to roar to call: call out in/on/with entrance gate in/on/with city word her to say
22 'Till when, ye simple, do ye love simplicity? And have scorners their scorning desired? And do fools hate knowledge?
till how simple to love: lover simplicity and to mock scorning to desire to/for them and fool to hate knowledge
23 Turn back at my reproof, lo, I pour forth to you my spirit, I make known my words with you.
to return: repent to/for argument my behold to bubble to/for you spirit my to know word my [obj] you
24 Because I have called, and ye refuse, I stretched out my hand, and none is attending,
because to call: call to and to refuse to stretch hand my and nothing to listen
25 And ye slight all my counsel, And my reproof ye have not desired.
and to neglect all counsel my and argument my not be willing
26 I also in your calamity do laugh, I deride when your fear cometh,
also I in/on/with calamity your to laugh to mock in/on/with to come (in): come dread your
27 When your fear cometh as destruction, And your calamity as a hurricane doth come, When on you come adversity and distress.
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
28 Then they call me, and I do not answer, They seek me earnestly, and find me not.
then to call: call to me and not to answer to seek me and not to find me
29 Because that they have hated knowledge, And the fear of Jehovah have not chosen.
underneath: because of for to hate knowledge and fear LORD not to choose
30 They have not consented to my counsel, They have despised all my reproof,
not be willing to/for counsel my to spurn all argument my
31 And they eat of the fruit of their way, And from their own counsels they are filled.
and to eat from fruit way: journey their and from counsel their to satisfy
32 For the turning of the simple slayeth them, And the security of the foolish destroyeth them.
for faithlessness simple to kill them and ease fool to perish them
33 And whoso is hearkening to me dwelleth confidently, And [is] quiet from fear of evil!'
and to hear: hear to/for me to dwell security and to rest from dread distress: harm