Proverbs 1
1 These are the (proverbs/wise sayings) that come from Solomon, the King of Israel, who was the son of [King] David.
[the] proverbs of Solomon [the] son of David [the] king of Israel.
2 (These proverbs [PRS] can teach people/By studying these proverbs, people can learn) how to be wise and how to obey what these proverbs teach them. They will [also] help people to understand which teachings are wise.
To learn wisdom and discipline to teach words of understanding.
3 These proverbs [PRS] will teach you how to discipline/control yourselves, how to conduct your lives, and how to do what is right and just [DOU].
To receive correction of insight righteousness and justice and uprightness.
4 They will show [people] who do not [yet] know much how to do things that are smart. They will show young people how to become wise and how to make good plans/decisions.
To give to naive people prudence to a youth knowledge and discretion.
5 Those who are wise should also pay attention [to these proverbs], in order to become more wise, and those who understand [these teachings] will receive good advice/guidance.
Let him listen a prudent [one] and let him increase insight and a discerning [one] wise directions let him get.
6 Then they will be able to understand the meaning of proverbs and parables/metaphors, these wise sayings and (riddles/sayings that are difficult to understand).
To understand a proverb and an enigma [the] words of learned ones and parables their.
7 If [you want to be] wise, you must begin by revering Yahweh. [Only] foolish people despise wisdom and good advice/discipline.
[the] fear of Yahweh [is the] beginning of knowledge wisdom and discipline fools they despise.
8 My son, pay attention to what [I], your father, am teaching you. And do not reject what your mother teaches you.
Listen to O son my [the] correction of father your and may not you reject [the] instruction of mother your.
9 What we teach you [will make you respected like having] a lovely turban around your head and [like] a [beautiful] necklace to put around your neck.
For - [will be] a wreath of favor they for head your and necklaces for neck your.
10 My son, if sinners tempt/entice you [to do what is wrong], say “No” to them.
O son my if they will entice you sinners may not you be willing.
11 They may say, “Come with us! Join us! We will hide and then kill [MTY] someone [who passes by]. We will ambush some helpless/innocent people.
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 We will kill them [HYP] and get rid of them completely, [just] like [people who are buried in] graves are gone forever. While they are in good health, we will send them to the place where dead people are. (Sheol h7585)
Let us engulf them like Sheol alive and complete like [those who] go down of [the] pit. (Sheol h7585)
13 And we will seize all the things that they own. We will fill our houses with these things!
All wealth prized we will find we will fill houses our plunder.
14 [So], come with us! Join our group! We will share with you the things that we steal.”
Lot your you will cast in midst of us a bag one it will belong to all of us.
15 My son, do not accompany them! Do not walk on the roads with them!
O son my may not you walk in [the] way with them restrain foot your from pathway their.
16 They rush to do evil deeds! They hurry to murder [MTY] people.
For feet their to evil they run and they may make haste to shed blood.
17 It is useless to put out a (trap/net to catch a bird) because when a bird sees it, [it stays away from it].
For in vain [is] spread out the net in [the] eyes of every owner of a wing.
18 But those wicked people are not like the birds, [because they do not realize] that when they prepare to ambush someone to kill him, they will be killed themselves!
And they for own blood their they lie in wait they lie hidden for own life their.
19 That is what happens to people who eagerly try to get things [by violently attacking others]. They will only destroy themselves!
[are] thus [the] paths of Every [one who] gains unjustly unjust gain [the] life of owners its it will take.
20 Wisdom [PRS] shouts to people in the streets, and calls out to people in the (plazas/town squares).
Wisdom in the street it cries aloud in the open places she gives voice her.
21 Wisdom calls out in noisy places, and at the entrances to cities.
At [the] top of noisy [places] she calls out at [the] entrances of [the] gates in the city sayings her she utters.
22 [Wisdom says], “How long will you stupid people continue to enjoy doing foolish things [RHQ]? How long will you people who ridicule God enjoy doing that [RHQ]? How long will you foolish people refuse to know [what things are right] [RHQ]?
Until when? - O naive people will you love naivete and mockers mockery do they delight in? themselves and fools will they hate? knowledge.
23 If you pay attention to me when I rebuke you, I will tell you what I am thinking in my inner being; I will give you some good advice.
You will turn back to rebuke my here! I will pour out to you spirit my let me declare words my you.
24 But when I called to you, you refused to listen. I beckoned to you to come to me, but you ignored me.
Because I called and you refused I offered hand my and there not [was] an attentive [one].
25 I tried to advise you, but you refused to listen to me. I tried to correct you, but you rejected what I told you.
And you ignored all advice my and rebuke my not you yielded to.
26 So [now], when you are experiencing troubles/disasters, I will laugh at you. When things happen that cause you to be afraid, I will make fun of you.
Also I at calamity your I will laugh I will mock when comes dread your.
27 When calamities strike you like a big storm, when disasters hit you like a violent wind, when [all kinds of things] distress you and give you trouble, [I will ridicule 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 [Wisdom also says], “When foolish people call to me [to help them], I will not answer them. They will search for me diligently/everywhere, but they will 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 They refused to know [what things are right], and they decided not to revere Yahweh.
Because for they hated knowledge and [the] fear of Yahweh not they chose.
30 They would not accept my advice, and they did not pay attention when I tried to correct them.
Not they yielded to advice my they spurned all rebuke my.
31 So they will endure what will result [MET, DOU] from the evil way they have lived/behaved and the evil things they have planned to do.
So they may eat from [the] fruit of way their and from own schemes their they will be surfeited.
32 Those who turn away from me are stupid/foolish; they will die because of doing that.
For [the] waywardness of naive people it will ruin them and [the] ease of fools it will destroy them.
33 But those who pay attention to me will live peacefully and safely, and they will not be afraid that something will harm them.”
And [one who] listens to me he will dwell security and he will be at ease from dread of trouble.
