Proverbs 1

NEW JERUSALEM	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 The proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel:	1 The parables of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel.
2 for learning what wisdom and discipline are, for understanding words of deep meaning,	2 To know wisdom, and instruction:
3 for acquiring a disciplined insight, uprightness, justice and fair dealing;	3 To understand the words of prudence: and to receive the instruction of doctrine, justice, and judgment, and equity:
4 for teaching sound judgement to the simple, and knowledge and reflection to the young;	4 To give subtilty to little ones, to the young man knowledge and understanding.
5 Let the wise listen and learn yet more, and a person of discernment wil acquire the art of guidance.	5 A wise man shall hear and shall be wiser: and he that understandeth, shall possess governments.
6 for perceiving the meaning of proverbs and obscure sayings, the sayings of the sages and their riddles.	6 He shall understand a parable, and the interpretation, the words of the wise, and their mysterious sayings.
7 The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; fools spurn wisdom and discipline.	7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Fools despise wisdom and instruction.
8 Listen, my child, to your father's instruction, do not reject your mother's teaching:	8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother :
9 they wil be a crown of grace for your head, a circlet for your neck.	9 That grace may be added to thy head, and a chain of gold to thy neck.
10 My child, if sinners try to seduce you, do not go with them.	10 My son, if sinners shall entice thee, consent not to them.
11 If they say, 'Come with us: let us lie in ambush to shed blood; if we plan an ambush for the innocentwithout provocation,	11 If they shall say: Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us hide snares for the innocent without cause:
12 we can swal ow them alive, like Sheol, and whole, like those who sink into oblivion.	12 Let us swallow him up alive like hell, and whole as one that goeth down into the pit.
13 We shal find treasures of every sort, we shall fil our houses with plunder;	13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoils.
14 throw in your lot with us: one purse between us al .'	14 Cast in thy lot with us, let us all have one purse.
15 My child, do not fol ow them in their way, keep your steps out of their path	15 My son, walk not thou with them, restrain thy foot from their paths.
16 for their feet hasten to evil, they are quick to shed blood;	16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
17 for the net is spread in vain if any winged creature can see it.	17 But a net is spread in vain before the eyes of them that have wings.
18 It is for their own blood such people lie in wait, their ambush is against their own selves!	18 And they themselves lie in wait for their own blood, and practise deceits against their own souls.
19 Such are the paths of al who seek dishonest gain: which robs of their lives al who take it for their own.	19 So the wage of every covetous man destroy the souls of the possessors.
20 Wisdom cal s aloud in the streets, she raises her voice in the public squares;	20 Wisdom preacheth abroad, she uttereth her voice in the streets:
21 she cal s out at the street corners, she delivers her message at the city gates.	21 At the head of multitudes she crieth out, in the entrance of the gates of the city she uttereth her words, saying:
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?	22 O children, how long will you love childishness, and fools covet those things which are hurtful to themselves, and the unwise hate knowledge?
23 Pay attention to my warning. To you I wil pour out my heart and tel you what I have to say.	23 Turn ye at my reproof: behold I will utter my spirit to you, and will shew you my words.
24 Since I have cal ed and you have refused me, since I have beckoned and no one has taken notice,	24 Because I called, and you refused: I stretched out my hand, and there was none that regarded.
25 since you have ignored al my advice and rejected al my warnings,	25 You have despised all my counsel, and have neglected my reprehensions.
26 I, for my part, shall laugh at your distress, I shal jeer when terror befal s you,	26 I also will laugh in your destruction, and will mock when that shall come to you which you feared.
27 when terror befal s you, like a storm, when your distress arrives, like a whirlwind, when ordeal andanguish bear down on you.	27 When sudden calamity shall fall on you, and destruction, as a tempest, shall be at hand: when tribulation and distress shall come upon you:
28 Then they will cal me, but I shal not answer, they wil look eagerly for me and will not find me.	28 Then shall they call upon me, and I will not hear: they shall rise in the morning and shall not find me:
29 They have hated knowledge, they have not chosen the fear of Yahweh,	29 Because they have hated instruction and received not the fear of the Lord,
30 they have taken no notice of my advice, they have spurned al my warnings:	30 Nor consented to my counsel, but despised all my reproof.
31 so they wil have to eat the fruits of their own ways of life, and choke themselves with their ownscheming.	31 Therefore they shall eat the fruit of their own way, and shall be filled with their own devices.
32 For the errors of the simple lead to their death, the complacency of fools works their own ruin;	32 The turning away of little ones shall kill them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
33 but whoever listens to me may live secure, will have quiet, fearing no mischance.'	33 But he that shall hear me, shall rest without terror, and shall enjoy abundance, without fear of evils.