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1 proverb Solomon son: child David king Israel
These are the 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 gaining wisdom and discipline, for comprehending words of insight,
3 to/for to take: recieve discipline: instruction be prudent righteousness and justice and uprightness
and for receiving instruction in wise living and in righteousness, justice, and equity.
4 to/for to give: give to/for simple craftiness to/for youth knowledge and plot
To impart prudence to the simple and knowledge and discretion to the young,
5 to hear: hear wise and to add teaching and to understand counsel to buy
let the wise listen and gain instruction, and the discerning acquire wise counsel
6 to/for to understand proverb and mockery word wise and riddle their
by understanding the proverbs and parables, the sayings and riddles of the wise.
7 fear LORD first: beginning knowledge wisdom and discipline: instruction fool(ish) to despise
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
8 to hear: hear son: child my discipline: instruction father your and not to leave instruction mother your
Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.
9 for wreath favor they(masc.) to/for head your and necklace to/for neck your
For they are a garland of grace on your head and a pendant around your neck.
10 son: child my if to entice you sinner not be willing
My son, if sinners entice you, do not yield to them.
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 along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush 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 alive like Sheol, and whole like those descending into the Pit. (Sheol h7585)
13 all substance precious to find to fill house: home our spoil
We will find all manner of precious goods; we will fill our houses with plunder.
14 allotted your to fall: deserting in/on/with midst our purse one to be to/for all our
Throw in your lot with us; let us all share 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, do not walk the road with them or set foot upon 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 are swift to shed blood.
17 for for nothing to scatter [the] net in/on/with eye: seeing all master: [master of] wing
How futile it is to spread the net where any bird can see it!
18 and they(masc.) to/for blood their to ambush to treasure to/for soul: life their
But they lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own lives.
19 so way all to cut off: to gain unjust-gain [obj] soul: life master his to take: take
Such is the fate of all who are greedy, whose unjust gain takes the lives of its possessors.
20 wisdom in/on/with outside to sing in/on/with street/plaza to give: cry out voice her
Wisdom calls out in the street, she lifts her voice in the square;
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
in the main concourse she cries aloud, at the city gates she makes her speech:
22 till how simple to love: lover simplicity and to mock scorning to desire to/for them and fool to hate knowledge
“How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and 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
If you had repented at my rebuke, then surely I would have poured out my spirit on you; I would have made my words known to you.
24 because to call: call to and to refuse to stretch hand my and nothing to listen
Because you refused my call, and no one took my outstretched hand,
25 and to neglect all counsel my and argument my not be willing
because you neglected all my counsel, and wanted none of my correction,
26 also I in/on/with calamity your to laugh to mock in/on/with to come (in): come dread your
in turn I will mock your calamity; I will sneer when terror strikes you,
27 in/on/with to come (in): come (like/as devastation *QK) dread your and calamity your like/as whirlwind to come in/on/with to come (in): come upon you distress and anguish
when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you.
28 then to call: call to me and not to answer to seek me and not to find me
Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; they will earnestly seek me, but will not find me.
29 underneath: because of for to hate knowledge and fear LORD not to choose
For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the LORD.
30 not be willing to/for counsel my to spurn all argument my
They accepted none of my counsel; they despised all my reproof.
31 and to eat from fruit way: journey their and from counsel their to satisfy
So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
32 for faithlessness simple to kill them and ease fool to perish them
For the waywardness of the simple will slay them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them.
33 and to hear: hear to/for me to dwell security and to rest from dread distress: harm
But whoever listens to me will dwell in safety, secure from the fear of evil.”

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