Proverbs 1
1 proverb Solomon son: child David king Israel
The Proverbs of Solomon son of David, who reigned in Israel;
2 to/for to know wisdom and discipline: instruction to/for to understand word understanding
to know wisdom and instruction, and to perceive words of understanding;
3 to/for to take: recieve discipline: instruction be prudent righteousness and justice and uprightness
to receive also hard saying, and to understand true justice, and [how] to direct judgment;
4 to/for to give: give to/for simple craftiness to/for youth knowledge and plot
that he might give subtlety to the simple, and to the young man discernment and understanding.
5 to hear: hear wise and to add teaching and to understand counsel to buy
For by the hearing of these a wise man will be wiser, and man of understanding will gain direction;
6 to/for to understand proverb and mockery word wise and riddle their
and will understand a parable, and a dark speech; the saying of the wise also, and riddles.
7 fear LORD first: beginning knowledge wisdom and discipline: instruction fool(ish) to despise
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; and [there is] good understanding to all that practise it: and piety toward God is the beginning of discernment; but the ungodly will set at nothing wisdom and instruction.
8 to hear: hear son: child my discipline: instruction father your and not to leave instruction mother your
Hear, [my] son, the instruction of your father, and reject not the rules of your mother.
9 for wreath favor they(masc.) to/for head your and necklace to/for neck your
For you shall receive for your head a crown of graces, and a chain of gold round your neck.
10 son: child my if to entice you sinner not be willing
[My] son, let not ungodly men lead you astray, neither consent you [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 exhort you, saying, Come with us, partake in blood, and let us unjustly hide the just man in the earth:
12 to swallow up them like/as hell: Sheol alive and unblemished: complete like/as to go down pit (Sheol h7585)
and let us swallow him alive, as Hades [would], and remove the memorial of him from the earth: (Sheol h7585)
13 all substance precious to find to fill house: home our spoil
let us seize on his valuable property, and let us fill our houses with spoils:
14 allotted your to fall: deserting in/on/with midst our purse one to be to/for all our
but do you cast in your lot with us, and let us all provide a common purse, and let us have one pouch:
15 son: child my not to go: walk in/on/with way: journey with them to withhold foot your from path their
go not in the way with them, but turn aside your foot 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 run to do evil, and are swift to shed blood. ]
17 for for nothing to scatter [the] net in/on/with eye: seeing all master: [master of] wing
for nets are not without cause spread for birds.
18 and they(masc.) to/for blood their to ambush to treasure to/for soul: life their
For they that are concerned in murder store up evils for themselves; and the overthrow of transgressors is evil.
19 so way all to cut off: to gain unjust-gain [obj] soul: life master his to take: take
These are the ways of all that perform lawless deeds; for by ungodliness they destroy their own life.
20 wisdom in/on/with outside to sing in/on/with street/plaza to give: cry out voice her
Wisdom sings aloud in passages, and in the broad places speaks boldly.
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
And she makes proclamation on the top of the walls, and sits by the gates of princes; and at the gates of the city boldly says,
22 till how simple to love: lover simplicity and to mock scorning to desire to/for them and fool to hate knowledge
So long as the simple cleave to justice, they shall not be ashamed: but the foolish being lovers of haughtiness, having become ungodly have hated knowledge, and are become subject to reproofs.
23 to return: repent to/for argument my behold to bubble to/for you spirit my to know word my [obj] you
Behold, I will bring forth to you the utterance of my breath, and I will instruct you in my speech.
24 because to call: call to and to refuse to stretch hand my and nothing to listen
Since I called, and you did not listen; and I spoke at length, and you gave no heed;
25 and to neglect all counsel my and argument my not be willing
but you set at nothing my counsels, and disregarded my reproofs;
26 also I in/on/with calamity your to laugh to mock in/on/with to come (in): come dread your
therefore I also will laugh at your destruction; and I will rejoice against [you] when ruin comes upon 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
yes when dismay suddenly comes upon you, and [your] overthrow shall arrive like a tempest; and when tribulation and distress shall come upon you, or when ruin shall come upon you.
28 then to call: call to me and not to answer to seek me and not to find me
For it shall be that when you call upon me, I will not listen to you: wicked men shall seek me, but shall not find [me].
29 underneath: because of for to hate knowledge and fear LORD not to choose
For they hated wisdom, and did not choose the word of the Lord:
30 not be willing to/for counsel my to spurn all argument my
neither would they attend to my counsels, but derided my reproofs.
31 and to eat from fruit way: journey their and from counsel their to satisfy
Therefore shall they eat the fruits of their own way, and shall be filled with their own ungodliness.
32 for faithlessness simple to kill them and ease fool to perish them
For because they wronged the simple, they shall be slain; and an inquisition shall ruin the ungodly.
33 and to hear: hear to/for me to dwell security and to rest from dread distress: harm
But he that hearkens to me shall dwell in confidence, and shall rest securely from all evil.
