- 1. Proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel:
- 2. For knowing wisdom and instruction, For understanding sayings of intelligence,
- 3. For receiving the instruction of wisdom, Righteousness, judgment, and uprightness,
- 4. For giving to simple ones -- prudence, To a youth -- knowledge and discretion.
- 5. (The wise doth hear and increaseth learning, And the intelligent doth obtain counsels.)
- 6. For understanding a proverb and its sweetness, Words of the wise and their acute sayings.
- 7. Fear of Jehovah `is' a beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and instruction fools have despised!
- 8. Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother,
- 9. For a graceful wreath `are' they to thy head, And chains to thy neck.
- 10. My son, if sinners entice thee be not willing.
- 11. If they say, `Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause,
- 12. We swallow them as Sheol -- alive, And whole -- as those going down `to' the pit,
- 13. Every precious substance we find, We fill our houses `with' spoil,
- 14. Thy lot thou dost cast among us, One purse is -- to all of us.'
- 15. My son! go not in the way with them, Withhold thy foot from their path,
- 16. For their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed blood.
- 17. Surely in vain is the net spread out before the eyes of any bird.
- 18. And they for their own blood lay wait, They watch secretly for their own lives.
- 19. So `are' the paths of every gainer of dishonest gain, The life of its owners it taketh.
- 20. Wisdom in an out-place crieth aloud, In broad places she giveth forth her voice,
- 21. At the head of the multitudes she calleth, In the openings of the gates, In the city her sayings she saith:
- 22. `Till when, ye simple, do ye love simplicity? And have scorners their scorning desired? And do fools hate knowledge?
- 23. Turn back at my reproof, lo, I pour forth to you my spirit, I make known my words with you.
- 24. Because I have called, and ye refuse, I stretched out my hand, and none is attending,
- 25. And ye slight all my counsel, And my reproof ye have not desired.
- 26. I also in your calamity do laugh, I deride when your fear cometh,
- 27. When your fear cometh as destruction, And your calamity as a hurricane doth come, When on you come adversity and distress.
- 28. Then they call me, and I do not answer, They seek me earnestly, and find me not.
- 29. Because that they have hated knowledge, And the fear of Jehovah have not chosen.
- 30. They have not consented to my counsel, They have despised all my reproof,
- 31. And they eat of the fruit of their way, And from their own counsels they are filled.
- 32. For the turning of the simple slayeth them, And the security of the foolish destroyeth them.
- 33. And whoso is hearkening to me dwelleth confidently, And `is' quiet from fear of evil!'
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