Proverbs 1
1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
[the] proverbs of Solomon [the] son of David [the] king of Israel.
2 To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
To learn wisdom and discipline to teach words of understanding.
3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
To receive correction of insight righteousness and justice and uprightness.
4 To give prudence to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
To give to naive people prudence to a youth knowledge and discretion.
5 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain to wise counsels:
Let him listen a prudent [one] and let him increase insight and a discerning [one] wise directions let him get.
6 To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
To understand a proverb and an enigma [the] words of learned ones and parables their.
7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
[the] fear of Yahweh [is the] beginning of knowledge wisdom and discipline fools they despise.
8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
Listen to O son my [the] correction of father your and may not you reject [the] instruction of mother your.
9 For they shall be an ornament of grace to thy head, and chains about thy neck.
For - [will be] a wreath of favor they for head your and necklaces for neck your.
10 My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
O son my if they will entice you sinners may not you be willing.
11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause:
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 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: (Sheol h7585)
Let us engulf them like Sheol alive and complete like [those who] go down of [the] pit. (Sheol h7585)
13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
All wealth prized we will find we will fill houses our plunder.
14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
Lot your you will cast in midst of us a bag one it will belong to all of us.
15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; keep thy foot from their path:
O son my may not you walk in [the] way with them restrain foot your from pathway their.
16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
For feet their to evil they run and they may make haste to shed blood.
17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
For in vain [is] spread out the net in [the] eyes of every owner of a wing.
18 And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk secretly for their own lives.
And they for own blood their they lie in wait they lie hidden for own life their.
19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; who taketh away the life of its owners.
[are] thus [the] paths of Every [one who] gains unjustly unjust gain [the] life of owners its it will take.
20 Wisdom crieth outside; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
Wisdom in the street it cries aloud in the open places she gives voice her.
21 She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,
At [the] top of noisy [places] she calls out at [the] entrances of [the] gates in the city sayings her she utters.
22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
Until when? - O naive people will you love naivete and mockers mockery do they delight in? themselves and fools will they hate? knowledge.
23 Turn ye at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit to you, I will make known to you my words.
You will turn back to rebuke my here! I will pour out to you spirit my let me declare words my you.
24 Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
Because I called and you refused I offered hand my and there not [was] an attentive [one].
25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and rejected my reproof:
And you ignored all advice my and rebuke my not you yielded to.
26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
Also I at calamity your I will laugh I will mock when comes dread your.
27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon 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 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall 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 Because they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
Because for they hated knowledge and [the] fear of Yahweh not they chose.
30 They rejected my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
Not they yielded to advice my they spurned all rebuke my.
31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
So they may eat from [the] fruit of way their and from own schemes their they will be surfeited.
32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
For [the] waywardness of naive people it will ruin them and [the] ease of fools it will destroy them.
33 But whoever hearkeneth to me shall dwell in safety, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.
And [one who] listens to me he will dwell security and he will be at ease from dread of trouble.
