Proverbs 1
1 proverb Solomon son: child David king Israel
The parables of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel,
2 to/for to know wisdom and discipline: instruction to/for to understand word understanding
in order to know wisdom and discipline,
3 to/for to take: recieve discipline: instruction be prudent righteousness and justice and uprightness
to understand words of prudence, and to accept the instruction of doctrine, justice and judgment, and equity,
4 to/for to give: give to/for simple craftiness to/for youth knowledge and plot
so as to give discernment to little ones, knowledge and understanding to adolescents.
5 to hear: hear wise and to add teaching and to understand counsel to buy
By listening, the wise shall become wiser and the intelligent shall possess governments.
6 to/for to understand proverb and mockery word wise and riddle their
He shall turn his soul to a parable and to its interpretation, to the words of the wise and their enigmas.
7 fear LORD first: beginning knowledge wisdom and discipline: instruction fool(ish) to despise
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. The foolish despise wisdom as well as doctrine.
8 to hear: hear son: child my discipline: instruction father your and not to leave instruction mother your
Listen, my son, to the discipline of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother,
9 for wreath favor they(masc.) to/for head your and necklace to/for neck your
so that grace may be added to your head and a collar to your neck.
10 son: child my if to entice you sinner not be willing
My son, if sinners should entice you, do not consent 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 should say: “Come with us. We will lie in wait for blood. We will lay traps against 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 him alive, like Hell, and whole, like one descending into the pit. (Sheol h7585)
13 all substance precious to find to fill house: home our spoil
We will discover every precious substance. We will fill our houses with spoils.
14 allotted your to fall: deserting in/on/with midst our purse one to be to/for all our
Cast your lot with us. One purse will be for us all.”
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 with them. Preclude your feet from their paths.
16 for foot their to/for bad: evil to run: run and to hasten to/for to pour: kill blood
For their feet rush 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
But a net is thrown in vain before the eyes of those who have wings.
18 and they(masc.) to/for blood their to ambush to treasure to/for soul: life their
Likewise, they lie in ambush against their own blood, and they undertake deceits against their own souls.
19 so way all to cut off: to gain unjust-gain [obj] soul: life master his to take: take
Thus, the ways of all those who are greedy seize the souls of those who possess.
20 wisdom in/on/with outside to sing in/on/with street/plaza to give: cry out voice her
Wisdom forewarns far and wide; she bestows her voice in the streets.
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 cries out at the head of crowds; at the entrance of the gates of the city, she offers her words, saying:
22 till how simple to love: lover simplicity and to mock scorning to desire to/for them and fool to hate knowledge
“Little ones, how long will you choose to be childish, and how long will the foolish desire what is harmful to themselves, and how long will the imprudent hate knowledge?
23 to return: repent to/for argument my behold to bubble to/for you spirit my to know word my [obj] you
Be converted by my correction. Lo, I will offer my spirit to you, and I will reveal my words to you.
24 because to call: call to and to refuse to stretch hand my and nothing to listen
For I called, and you refused. I extended my hand, and there was no one who watched.
25 and to neglect all counsel my and argument my not be willing
You have despised all my counsels, and you have neglected my rebukes.
26 also I in/on/with calamity your to laugh to mock in/on/with to come (in): come dread your
Similarly, I will ridicule you at your demise, and I will mock you, when that which you feared shall overcome 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 sudden calamity rushes upon you, and your demise advances like a tempest, when tribulation and anguish overcome you,
28 then to call: call to me and not to answer to seek me and not to find me
then they will call to me, and I will not heed, they will arise in the morning, and not find me.
29 underneath: because of for to hate knowledge and fear LORD not to choose
For they held hatred for discipline, and they would not accept the fear of the Lord;
30 not be willing to/for counsel my to spurn all argument my
they would not consent to my counsel, but they detracted from all of my corrections.
31 and to eat from fruit way: journey their and from counsel their to satisfy
Therefore, they shall eat the fruit of their way, and they shall have their fill of their own counsels.
32 for faithlessness simple to kill them and ease fool to perish them
The loathing of the little ones shall destroy them, and the prosperity of the foolish shall perish them.
33 and to hear: hear to/for me to dwell security and to rest from dread distress: harm
But whoever will listen to me shall rest without terror, and shall have full enjoyment of abundance, without fear of evils.”
