Proverbs 1

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¹ The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;	¹ The proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel:
² To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;	² for learning what wisdom and discipline are, for understanding words of deep meaning,
³ To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;	³ for acquiring a disciplined insight, uprightness, justice and fair dealing;
⁴ To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.	⁴ for teaching sound judgement to the simple, and knowledge and reflection to the young;
⁵ A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:	⁵ Let the wise listen and learn yet more, and a person of discernment wil acquire the art of guidance.
⁶ To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.	⁶ for perceiving the meaning of proverbs and obscure sayings, the sayings of the sages and their riddles.
⁷ The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.	⁷ The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; fools spurn wisdom and discipline.
⁸ My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:	⁸ Listen, my child, to your father's instruction, do not reject your mother's teaching:
⁹ For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.	⁹ they wil be a crown of grace for your head, a circlet for your neck.
¹⁰ My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.	¹⁰ My child, if sinners try to seduce you, do not go with them.
¹¹ If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:	¹¹ If they say, 'Come with us: let us lie in ambush to shed blood; if we plan an ambush for the innocentwithout provocation,
¹² Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:	¹² we can swal ow them alive, like Sheol, and whole, like those who sink into oblivion.
¹³ We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:	¹³ We shal find treasures of every sort, we shall fil our houses with plunder;
¹⁴ Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:	¹⁴ throw in your lot with us: one purse between us al .'
¹⁵ My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:	¹⁵ My child, do not fol ow them in their way, keep your steps out of their path
¹⁶ For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.	¹⁶ for their feet hasten to evil, they are quick to shed blood;
¹⁷ Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.	¹⁷ for the net is spread in vain if any winged creature can see it.
¹⁸ And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.	¹⁸ It is for their own blood such people lie in wait, their ambush is against their own selves!
¹⁹ So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.	¹⁹ Such are the paths of al who seek dishonest gain: which robs of their lives al who take it for their own.
²⁰ Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:	²⁰ Wisdom cal s aloud in the streets, she raises her voice in the public squares;
²¹ She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,	²¹ she cal s out at the street corners, she delivers her message at the city gates.
²² How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?	²² 'You simple people, how much longer will you cling to your simple ways? How much longer willmockers revel in their mocking and fools go on hating knowledge?
²³ Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.	²³ Pay attention to my warning. To you I wil pour out my heart and tel you what I have to say.
²⁴ Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;	²⁴ Since I have cal ed and you have refused me, since I have beckoned and no one has taken notice,
²⁵ But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:	²⁵ since you have ignored al my advice and rejected al my warnings,
²⁶ I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;	²⁶ I, for my part, shall laugh at your distress, I shal jeer when terror befal s you,
²⁷ When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.	²⁷ when terror befal s you, like a storm, when your distress arrives, like a whirlwind, when ordeal andanguish bear down on you.
²⁸ Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:	²⁸ Then they will cal me, but I shal not answer, they wil look eagerly for me and will not find me.
²⁹ For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:	²⁹ They have hated knowledge, they have not chosen the fear of Yahweh,
³⁰ They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.	³⁰ they have taken no notice of my advice, they have spurned al my warnings:
³¹ Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.	³¹ so they wil have to eat the fruits of their own ways of life, and choke themselves with their ownscheming.
³² For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.	³² For the errors of the simple lead to their death, the complacency of fools works their own ruin;
³³ But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.	³³ but whoever listens to me may live secure, will have quiet, fearing no mischance.'

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