Proverbs 1

NEW JERUSALEM	KING JAMES BIBLE
1 The proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel:	1 The proverbs 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; to perceive the words of understanding;
3 for acquiring a disciplined insight, uprightness, justice and fair dealing;	3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, 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 the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
5 Let the wise listen and learn yet more, and a person of discernment wil acquire the art of guidance.	5 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
6 for perceiving the meaning of proverbs and obscure sayings, the sayings of the sages and their riddles.	6 To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark 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 knowledge: but 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 For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
10 My child, if sinners try to seduce you, do not go with them.	10 My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
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 say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily 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 them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go 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 spoil:
14 throw in your lot with us: one purse between us al .'	14 Cast in thy lot among 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 in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
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 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
18 It is for their own blood such people lie in wait, their ambush is against their own selves!	18 And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
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 are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
20 Wisdom cal s aloud in the streets, she raises her voice in the public squares;	20 Wisdom crieth without; 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 She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in 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 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools 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 you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
24 Since I have cal ed and you have refused me, since I have beckoned and no one has taken notice,	24 Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
25 since you have ignored al my advice and rejected al my warnings,	25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
26 I, for my part, shall laugh at your distress, I shal jeer when terror befal s you,	26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
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 your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh 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, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
29 They have hated knowledge, they have not chosen the fear of Yahweh,	29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
30 they have taken no notice of my advice, they have spurned al my warnings:	30 They would none of my counsel: they 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 shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and 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 For the turning away of the simple shall slay 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 whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.