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Proverbs 1
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1The Proverbs of Solomon son of David, who reigned in Israel;
1The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
2to know wisdom and instruction, and to perceive words of understanding;
2To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
3to receive also hard saying, and to understand true justice, and [how] to direct judgment;
3To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
4that he might give subtlety to the simple, and to the young man discernment and understanding.
4To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
5For by the hearing of these a wise man will be wiser, and man of understanding will gain direction;
5A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
6and will understand a parable, and a dark speech; the saying of the wise also, and riddles.
6To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
7The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; and [there is] good understanding to all that practise it: and piety toward God is the beginning of discernment; but the ungodly will set at nothing wisdom and instruction.
7The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
8Hear, [my] son, the instruction of your father, and reject not the rules of your mother.
8My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
9For you shall receive for your head a crown of graces, and a chain of gold round your neck.
9For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
10[My] son, let not ungodly men lead you astray, neither consent you [to them].
10My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
11If they should exhort you, saying, Come with us, partake in blood, and let us unjustly hide the just man in the earth:
11If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
12and let us swallow him alive, as Hades [would], and remove the memorial of him from the earth:
12Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
13let us seize on his valuable property, and let us fill our houses with spoils:
13We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
14but do you cast in your lot with us, and let us all provide a common purse, and let us have one pouch:
14Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
15go not in the way with them, but turn aside your foot from their paths:
15My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
16[For their feet run to do evil, and are swift to shed blood. ]
16For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
17for nets are not without cause spread for birds.
17Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
18For they that are concerned in murder store up evils for themselves; and the overthrow of transgressors is evil.
18And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
19These are the ways of all that perform lawless deeds; for by ungodliness they destroy their own life .
19So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
20Wisdom sings aloud in passages, and in the broad places speaks boldly.
20Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
21And she makes proclamation on the top of the walls, and sits by the gates of princes; and at the gates of the city boldly says,
21She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,
22So long as the simple cleave to justice, they shall not be ashamed: but the foolish being lovers of haughtiness, having become ungodly have hated knowledge, and are become subject to reproofs.
22How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
23Behold, I will bring forth to you the utterance of my breath, and I will instruct you in my speech.
23Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
24Since I called, and you⌃ did not listen; and I spoke at length, and you⌃ gave no heed;
24Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
25but you⌃ set at nothing my counsels, and disregarded my reproofs;
25But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
26therefore I also will laugh at your destruction; and I will rejoice against [you] when ruin comes upon you:
26I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
27yes when dismay suddenly comes upon you, and [your] overthrow shall arrive like a tempest; and when tribulation and distress shall come upon you, or when ruin shall come upon you.
27When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
28For it shall be that when you⌃ call upon me, I will not listen to you: wicked men shall seek me , but shall not find [me].
28Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
29For they hated wisdom, and did not choose the word of the Lord:
29For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord:
30neither would they attend to my counsels, but derided my reproofs.
30They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
31Therefore shall they eat the fruits of their own way, and shall be filled with their own ungodliness.
31Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
32For because they wronged the simple, they shall be slain; and an inquisition shall ruin the ungodly.
32For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
33But he that hearkens to me shall dwell in confidence, and shall rest securely from all evil.
33But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.