Proverbs 1
1 Proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel:
[the] proverbs of Solomon [the] son of David [the] king of Israel.
2 For knowing wisdom and instruction, For understanding sayings of intelligence,
To learn wisdom and discipline to teach words of understanding.
3 For receiving the instruction of wisdom, Righteousness, judgment, and uprightness,
To receive correction of insight righteousness and justice and uprightness.
4 For giving to simple ones — prudence, To a youth — knowledge and discretion.
To give to naive people prudence to a youth knowledge and discretion.
5 (The wise doth hear and increaseth learning, And the intelligent doth obtain counsels.)
Let him listen a prudent [one] and let him increase insight and a discerning [one] wise directions let him get.
6 For understanding a proverb and its sweetness, Words of the wise and their acute sayings.
To understand a proverb and an enigma [the] words of learned ones and parables their.
7 Fear of Jehovah [is] a beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and instruction fools have despised!
[the] fear of Yahweh [is the] beginning of knowledge wisdom and discipline fools they despise.
8 Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother,
Listen to O son my [the] correction of father your and may not you reject [the] instruction of mother your.
9 For a graceful wreath [are] they to thy head, And chains to thy neck.
For - [will be] a wreath of favor they for head your and necklaces for neck your.
10 My son, if sinners entice thee be not willing.
O son my if they will entice you sinners may not you be willing.
11 If they say, 'Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause,
If they will say come! with us let us lie in wait for blood let us lie hidden for an innocent [one] without cause.
Let us engulf them like Sheol alive and complete like [those who] go down of [the] pit. (Sheol h7585)
13 Every precious substance we find, We fill our houses [with] spoil,
All wealth prized we will find we will fill houses our plunder.
14 Thy lot thou dost cast among us, One purse is — to all of us.'
Lot your you will cast in midst of us a bag one it will belong to all of us.
15 My son! go not in the way with them, Withhold thy foot from their path,
O son my may not you walk in [the] way with them restrain foot your from pathway their.
16 For their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed blood.
For feet their to evil they run and they may make haste to shed blood.
17 Surely in vain is the net spread out before the eyes of any bird.
For in vain [is] spread out the net in [the] eyes of every owner of a wing.
18 And they for their own blood lay wait, They watch secretly for their own lives.
And they for own blood their they lie in wait they lie hidden for own life their.
19 So [are] the paths of every gainer of dishonest gain, The life of its owners it taketh.
[are] thus [the] paths of Every [one who] gains unjustly unjust gain [the] life of owners its it will take.
20 Wisdom in an out-place crieth aloud, In broad places she giveth forth her voice,
Wisdom in the street it cries aloud in the open places she gives voice her.
21 At the head of the multitudes she calleth, In the openings of the gates, In the city her sayings she saith:
At [the] top of noisy [places] she calls out at [the] entrances of [the] gates in the city sayings her she utters.
22 'Till when, ye simple, do ye love simplicity? And have scorners their scorning desired? And do fools hate knowledge?
Until when? - O naive people will you love naivete and mockers mockery do they delight in? themselves and fools will they hate? knowledge.
23 Turn back at my reproof, lo, I pour forth to you my spirit, I make known my words with you.
You will turn back to rebuke my here! I will pour out to you spirit my let me declare words my you.
24 Because I have called, and ye refuse, I stretched out my hand, and none is attending,
Because I called and you refused I offered hand my and there not [was] an attentive [one].
25 And ye slight all my counsel, And my reproof ye have not desired.
And you ignored all advice my and rebuke my not you yielded to.
26 I also in your calamity do laugh, I deride when your fear cometh,
Also I at calamity your I will laugh I will mock when comes dread your.
27 When your fear cometh as destruction, And your calamity as a hurricane doth come, When on you come adversity and distress.
When comes (like devastation *Q(K)*) dread your and calamity your like a storm-wind it will arrive when comes on you trouble and distress.
28 Then they call me, and I do not answer, They seek me earnestly, and find me not.
Then they will call to me and not I will answer they will earnestly seek me and not they will find me.
29 Because that they have hated knowledge, And the fear of Jehovah have not chosen.
Because for they hated knowledge and [the] fear of Yahweh not they chose.
30 They have not consented to my counsel, They have despised all my reproof,
Not they yielded to advice my they spurned all rebuke my.
31 And they eat of the fruit of their way, And from their own counsels they are filled.
So they may eat from [the] fruit of way their and from own schemes their they will be surfeited.
32 For the turning of the simple slayeth them, And the security of the foolish destroyeth them.
For [the] waywardness of naive people it will ruin them and [the] ease of fools it will destroy them.
33 And whoso is hearkening to me dwelleth confidently, And [is] quiet from fear of evil!'
And [one who] listens to me he will dwell security and he will be at ease from dread of trouble.
