Proverbs 1
1 proverb Solomon son: child David king Israel
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
They are for achieving wisdom and instruction, and to recognize sayings that bring insight.
3 to/for to take: recieve discipline: instruction be prudent righteousness and justice and uprightness
They provide education in what makes sense, living right, judging correctly, and acting fairly.
4 to/for to give: give to/for simple craftiness to/for youth knowledge and plot
They give discernment to the immature, knowledge and discretion to the young.
5 to hear: hear wise and to add teaching and to understand counsel to buy
Wise people will listen and gain in learning, and those who have good judgment will gain skills in guidance,
6 to/for to understand proverb and mockery word wise and riddle their
understanding the proverbs and puzzles, the sayings and questions of the wise.
7 fear LORD first: beginning knowledge wisdom and discipline: instruction fool(ish) to despise
Honoring the Lord is where true knowledge begins, but fools treat wisdom and good advice with contempt.
8 to hear: hear son: child my discipline: instruction father your and not to leave instruction mother your
My son, pay attention to your father's instruction, and don't reject your mother's teaching.
9 for wreath favor they(masc.) to/for head your and necklace to/for neck your
They are a wreath of grace to decorate your head; they are pendants for your neck.
10 son: child my if to entice you sinner not be willing
My son, if evil people try to tempt you, don't give into them.
11 if to say to go: come [emph?] with us to ambush to/for blood to treasure to/for innocent for nothing
They may tell you, “Come with us. Let's go and hide, ready to kill someone. Let's ambush someone for fun!
12 to swallow up them like/as hell: Sheol alive and unblemished: complete like/as to go down pit (Sheol h7585)
Let's bury them alive; let's put them in the grave while they're still healthy! (Sheol h7585)
13 all substance precious to find to fill house: home our spoil
We'll take from them all kinds of valuable things and fill our homes with the stuff we steal!
14 allotted your to fall: deserting in/on/with midst our purse one to be to/for all our
Come and join us and we'll all share what we get!”
15 son: child my not to go: walk in/on/with way: journey with them to withhold foot your from path their
My son, don't follow their ways. Don't go in that direction with them.
16 for foot their to/for bad: evil to run: run and to hasten to/for to pour: kill blood
For they rush to do evil; they hurry to commit violence and murder.
17 for for nothing to scatter [the] net in/on/with eye: seeing all master: [master of] wing
There's no point in trying to lure birds into a net when they can see it.
18 and they(masc.) to/for blood their to ambush to treasure to/for soul: life their
However, these evil people hide ready to kill others, but they themselves are the victims. They're only ambushing themselves!
19 so way all to cut off: to gain unjust-gain [obj] soul: life master his to take: take
This is what happens to you if you try to become rich through crime—it kills you!
20 wisdom in/on/with outside to sing in/on/with street/plaza to give: cry out voice her
Wisdom calls out in the streets; she shouts aloud in the squares.
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 busy corners; she explains her message at the town gates:
22 till how simple to love: lover simplicity and to mock scorning to desire to/for them and fool to hate knowledge
“How long will you stupid people love stupidity? How long will scornful people enjoy their mocking? How long will 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
Pay attention to my warnings, and I'll pour out my deepest thoughts to you—I'll explain what I know to you.
24 because to call: call to and to refuse to stretch hand my and nothing to listen
For I have called you, but you refused to listen; I reached out my hand to you, but you didn't care.
25 and to neglect all counsel my and argument my not be willing
You ignored everything I said; you wouldn't accept any of my warnings.
26 also I in/on/with calamity your to laugh to mock in/on/with to come (in): come dread your
So I'll laugh at you when you're in trouble; I'll mock you when you're in a panic.
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 panic rains down on you like a storm, when trouble hits you like a whirlwind, when sorrow and pain come on you,
28 then to call: call to me and not to answer to seek me and not to find me
then you'll call out to me for help, but I won't answer; you'll search hard for me, but won't find me.
29 underneath: because of for to hate knowledge and fear LORD not to choose
Why?—because they hated knowledge, and they didn't choose to respect the Lord.
30 not be willing to/for counsel my to spurn all argument my
They're not willing to accept my advice; they despise all my warnings.
31 and to eat from fruit way: journey their and from counsel their to satisfy
So they'll have to eat the fruit of their own choices, bloated by their own devious schemes.
32 for faithlessness simple to kill them and ease fool to perish them
Stupid people are killed by their rebellion; foolish people are destroyed by their lack of concern.
33 and to hear: hear to/for me to dwell security and to rest from dread distress: harm
But everyone who listens to me will be kept safe, and will live without worrying about problems.”
