Proverbs 1
1 The parables of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel.
[the] proverbs of Solomon [the] son of David [the] king of Israel.
2 To know wisdom, and instruction:
To learn wisdom and discipline to teach words of understanding.
3 To understand the words of prudence: and to receive the instruction of doctrine, justice, and judgment, and equity:
To receive correction of insight righteousness and justice and uprightness.
4 To give subtilty to little ones, to the young man knowledge and understanding.
To give to naive people prudence to a youth knowledge and discretion.
5 A wise man shall hear and shall be wiser: and he that understandeth, shall possess governments.
Let him listen a prudent [one] and let him increase insight and a discerning [one] wise directions let him get.
6 He shall understand a parable, and the interpretation, the words of the wise, and their mysterious sayings.
To understand a proverb and an enigma [the] words of learned ones and parables their.
7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Fools despise wisdom and instruction.
[the] fear of Yahweh [is the] beginning of knowledge wisdom and discipline fools they despise.
8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake 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 That grace may be added to thy head, and a chain of gold to thy neck.
For - [will be] a wreath of favor they for head your and necklaces for neck your.
10 My son, if sinners shall entice thee, consent not to them.
O son my if they will entice you sinners may not you be willing.
11 If they shall say: Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us hide snares 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.
12 Let us swallow him up alive like hell, and whole as one that goeth down into the pit. (Sheol h7585)
Let us engulf them like Sheol alive and complete like [those who] go down of [the] pit. (Sheol h7585)
13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoils.
All wealth prized we will find we will fill houses our plunder.
14 Cast in thy lot with us, let us all have one purse.
Lot your you will cast in midst of us a bag one it will belong to all of us.
15 My son, walk not thou with them, restrain thy foot from their paths.
O son my may not you walk in [the] way with them restrain foot your from pathway their.
16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
For feet their to evil they run and they may make haste to shed blood.
17 But a net is spread in vain before the eyes of them that have wings.
For in vain [is] spread out the net in [the] eyes of every owner of a wing.
18 And they themselves lie in wait for their own blood, and practise deceits against their own souls.
And they for own blood their they lie in wait they lie hidden for own life their.
19 So the wage of every covetous man destroy the souls of the possessors.
[are] thus [the] paths of Every [one who] gains unjustly unjust gain [the] life of owners its it will take.
20 Wisdom preacheth abroad, she uttereth her voice in the streets:
Wisdom in the street it cries aloud in the open places she gives voice her.
21 At the head of multitudes she crieth out, in the entrance of the gates of the city she uttereth her words, saying:
At [the] top of noisy [places] she calls out at [the] entrances of [the] gates in the city sayings her she utters.
22 O children, how long will you love childishness, and fools covet those things which are hurtful to themselves, and the unwise 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 ye at my reproof: behold I will utter my spirit to you, and will shew you my words.
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 called, and you refused: I stretched out my hand, and there was none that regarded.
Because I called and you refused I offered hand my and there not [was] an attentive [one].
25 You have despised all my counsel, and have neglected my reprehensions.
And you ignored all advice my and rebuke my not you yielded to.
26 I also will laugh in your destruction, and will mock when that shall come to you which you feared.
Also I at calamity your I will laugh I will mock when comes dread your.
27 When sudden calamity shall fall on you, and destruction, as a tempest, shall be at hand: when tribulation and distress shall come upon you:
When comes (like devastation *QK) dread your and calamity your like a storm-wind it will arrive when comes on you trouble and distress.
28 Then shall they call upon me, and I will not hear: they shall rise in the morning and shall not find me:
Then they will call to me and not I will answer they will earnestly seek me and not they will find me.
29 Because they have hated instruction and received not the fear of the Lord,
Because for they hated knowledge and [the] fear of Yahweh not they chose.
30 Nor consented to my counsel, but despised all my reproof.
Not they yielded to advice my they spurned all rebuke my.
31 Therefore they shall eat the fruit of their own way, and shall be filled with their own devices.
So they may eat from [the] fruit of way their and from own schemes their they will be surfeited.
32 The turning away of little ones shall kill them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
For [the] waywardness of naive people it will ruin them and [the] ease of fools it will destroy them.
33 But he that shall hear me, shall rest without terror, and shall enjoy abundance, without fear of evils.
And [one who] listens to me he will dwell security and he will be at ease from dread of trouble.
