Proverbs 1
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Proverbs 1
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| The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel: | The wise sayings of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel. |
| To know wisdom and instruction; To discern the words of understanding; | To have knowledge of wise teaching; to be clear about the words of reason: |
| To receive instruction in wise dealing, In righteousness and justice and equity; | To be trained in the ways of wisdom, in righteousness and judging truly and straight behaviour: |
| To give prudence to the simple, To the young man knowledge and discretion: | To make the simple-minded sharp, and to give the young man knowledge, and serious purpose: |
| That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; And that the man of understanding may attain unto sound counsels: | (The wise man, hearing, will get greater learning, and the acts of the man of good sense will be wisely guided:) |
| To understand a proverb, and a figure, The words of the wise, and their dark sayings. | To get the sense of wise sayings and secrets, and of the words of the wise and their dark sayings. |
| The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge; [But] the foolish despise wisdom and instruction. | The fear of the Lord is the start of knowledge: but the foolish have no use for wisdom and teaching. |
| My son, hear the instruction of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother: | My son, give ear to the training of your father, and do not give up the teaching of your mother: |
| For they shall be a chaplet of grace unto thy head, And chains about thy neck. | For they will be a crown of grace for your head, and chain-ornaments about your neck. |
| My son, if sinners entice thee, Consent thou not. | My son, if sinners would take you out of the right way, do not go with them. |
| If they say, Come with us, Let us lay wait for blood; Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause; | If they say, Come with us; let us make designs against the good, waiting secretly for the upright, without cause; |
| Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, And whole, as those that go down into the pit; | Let us overcome them living, like the underworld, and in their strength, as those who go down to death; |
| We shall find all precious substance; We shall fill our houses with spoil; | Goods of great price will be ours, our houses will be full of wealth; |
| Thou shalt cast thy lot among us; We will all have one purse: | Take your chance with us, and we will all have one money-bag: |
| My son, walk not thou in the way with them; Refrain thy foot from their path: | My son, do not go with them; keep your feet from their ways: |
| For their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed blood. | For their feet are running after evil, and they are quick to take a man's life. |
| For in vain is the net spread In the sight of any bird: | Truly, to no purpose is the net stretched out before the eyes of the bird: |
| And these lay wait for their own blood; They lurk privily for their own lives. | And they are secretly waiting for their blood and making ready destruction for themselves. |
| So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; It taketh away the life of the owners thereof. | Such is the fate of everyone who goes in search of profit; it takes away the life of its owners. |
| Wisdom crieth aloud in the street; She uttereth her voice in the broad places; | Wisdom is crying out in the street; her voice is loud in the open places; |
| She crieth in the chief place of concourse; At the entrance of the gates, In the city, she uttereth her words: | Her words are sounding in the meeting-places, and in the doorways of the town: |
| How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And scoffers delight them in scoffing, And fools hate knowledge? | How long, you simple ones, will foolish things be dear to you? and pride a delight to the haters of authority? how long will the foolish go on hating knowledge? |
| Turn you at my reproof: Behold, I will pour out my spirit upon you; I will make known my words unto you. | Be turned again by my sharp words: see, I will send the flow of my spirit on you, and make my words clear to you. |
| Because I have called, and ye have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man hath regarded; | Because your ears were shut to my voice; no one gave attention to my out-stretched hand; |
| But ye have set at nought all my counsel, And would none of my reproof: | You were not controlled by my guiding, and would have nothing to do with my sharp words: |
| I also will laugh in [the day of] your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; | So in the day of your trouble I will be laughing; I will make sport of your fear; |
| When your fear cometh as a storm, And your calamity cometh on as a whirlwind; When distress and anguish come upon you. | When your fear comes on you like a storm, and your trouble like a rushing wind; when pain and sorrow come on you. |
| Then will they call upon me, but I will not answer; They will seek me diligently, but they shall not find me: | Then I will give no answer to their cries; searching for me early, they will not see me: |
| For that they hated knowledge, And did not choose the fear of Jehovah: | For they were haters of knowledge, and did not give their hearts to the fear of the Lord: |
| They would none of my counsel; They despised all my reproof. | They had no desire for my teaching, and my words of protest were as nothing to them. |
| Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, And be filled with their own devices. | So the fruit of their way will be their food, and with the designs of their hearts they will be made full. |
| For the backsliding of the simple shall slay them, And the careless ease of fools shall destroy them. | For the turning back of the simple from teaching will be the cause of their death, and the peace of the foolish will be their destruction. |
| But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell securely, And shall be quiet without fear of evil. | But whoever gives ear to me will take his rest safely, living in peace without fear of evil. |
