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| Proverbs 1:1 | The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel: | The wise sayings of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel. | Proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel: | The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel: |
| Proverbs 1:2 | To know wisdom and instruction; To discern the words of understanding; | To have knowledge of wise teaching; to be clear about the words of reason: | For knowing wisdom and instruction, For understanding sayings of intelligence, | To know wisdom and instruction; To discern the words of understanding; |
| Proverbs 1:3 | To receive instruction in wise dealing, In righteousness and justice and equity; | To be trained in the ways of wisdom, in righteousness and judging truly and straight behaviour: | For receiving the instruction of wisdom, Righteousness, judgment, and uprightness, | To receive instruction in wise dealing, In righteousness, justice, and equity; |
| Proverbs 1:4 | To give prudence to the simple, To the young man knowledge and discretion: | To make the simple-minded sharp, and to give the young man knowledge, and serious purpose: | For giving to simple ones prudence, To a youth knowledge and discretion. | To give prudence to the simple, Knowledge and discretion to the young man: |
| Proverbs 1:5 | That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; And that the man of understanding may attain unto sound counsels: | (The wise man, hearing, will get greater learning, and the acts of the man of good sense will be wisely guided:) | (The wise doth hear and increaseth learning, And the intelligent doth obtain counsels.) | That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; That the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel: |
| Proverbs 1:6 | To understand a proverb, and a figure, The words of the wise, and their dark sayings. | To get the sense of wise sayings and secrets, and of the words of the wise and their dark sayings. | For understanding a proverb and its sweetness, Words of the wise and their acute sayings. | To understand a proverb, and parables, The words and riddles of the wise. |
| Proverbs 1:7 | The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge; [But] the foolish despise wisdom and instruction. | The fear of the Lord is the start of knowledge: but the foolish have no use for wisdom and teaching. | Fear of Jehovah [is] a beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and instruction fools have despised! | The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; But the foolish despise wisdom and instruction. |
| Proverbs 1:8 | My son, hear the instruction of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother: | My son, give ear to the training of your father, and do not give up the teaching of your mother: | Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother, | My son, listen to your father's instruction, And don't forsake your mother's teaching: |
| Proverbs 1:9 | For they shall be a chaplet of grace unto thy head, And chains about thy neck. | For they will be a crown of grace for your head, and chain-ornaments about your neck. | For a graceful wreath [are] they to thy head, And chains to thy neck. | For they will be a garland to grace your head, And chains around your neck. |
| Proverbs 1:10 | My son, if sinners entice thee, Consent thou not. | My son, if sinners would take you out of the right way, do not go with them. | My son, if sinners entice thee be not willing. | My son, if sinners entice you, don't consent. |
| Proverbs 1:11 | If they say, Come with us, Let us lay wait for blood; Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause; | If they say, Come with us; let us make designs against the good, waiting secretly for the upright, without cause; | If they say, `Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause, | If they say, "Come with us, Let's lay in wait for blood; Let's lurk secretly for the innocent without cause; |
| Proverbs 1:12 | Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, And whole, as those that go down into the pit; | Let us overcome them living, like the underworld, and in their strength, as those who go down to death; | We swallow them as Sheol alive, And whole as those going down [to] the pit, | Let's swallow them up alive like Sheol, And whole, like those who go down into the pit. |
| Proverbs 1:13 | We shall find all precious substance; We shall fill our houses with spoil; | Goods of great price will be ours, our houses will be full of wealth; | Every precious substance we find, We fill our houses [with] spoil, | We'll find all valuable wealth. We'll fill our houses with spoil. |
| Proverbs 1:14 | Thou shalt cast thy lot among us; We will all have one purse: | Take your chance with us, and we will all have one money-bag: | Thy lot thou dost cast among us, One purse is to all of us.` | You shall cast your lot among us. We'll all have one purse." |
| Proverbs 1:15 | My son, walk not thou in the way with them; Refrain thy foot from their path: | My son, do not go with them; keep your feet from their ways: | My son! go not in the way with them, Withhold thy foot from their path, | My son, don't walk in the way with them. Keep your foot from their path, |
| Proverbs 1:16 | For their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed blood. | For their feet are running after evil, and they are quick to take a man's life. | For their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed blood. | For their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood. |
| Proverbs 1:17 | For in vain is the net spread In the sight of any bird: | Truly, to no purpose is the net stretched out before the eyes of the bird: | Surely in vain is the net spread out before the eyes of any bird. | For in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird: |
| Proverbs 1:18 | And these lay wait for their own blood; They lurk privily for their own lives. | And they are secretly waiting for their blood and making ready destruction for themselves. | And they for their own blood lay wait, They watch secretly for their own lives. | These lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives. |
| Proverbs 1:19 | So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; It taketh away the life of the owners thereof. | Such is the fate of everyone who goes in search of profit; it takes away the life of its owners. | So [are] the paths of every gainer of dishonest gain, The life of its owners it taketh. | So are the ways of everyone who is greedy of gain. It takes away the life of its owners. |
| Proverbs 1:20 | Wisdom crieth aloud in the street; She uttereth her voice in the broad places; | Wisdom is crying out in the street; her voice is loud in the open places; | Wisdom in an out-place crieth aloud, In broad places she giveth forth her voice, | Wisdom calls aloud in the street. She utters her voice in the public squares. |
| Proverbs 1:21 | She crieth in the chief place of concourse; At the entrance of the gates, In the city, she uttereth her words: | Her words are sounding in the meeting-places, and in the doorways of the town: | At the head of the multitudes she calleth, In the openings of the gates, In the city her sayings she saith: | She calls at the head of noisy places. At the entrance of the city gates, she utters her words: |
| Proverbs 1:22 | How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And scoffers delight them in scoffing, And fools hate knowledge? | How long, you simple ones, will foolish things be dear to you? and pride a delight to the haters of authority? how long will the foolish go on hating knowledge? | `Till when, ye simple, do ye love simplicity? And have scorners their scorning desired? And do fools hate knowledge? | "How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, And fools hate knowledge? |
| Proverbs 1:23 | Turn you at my reproof: Behold, I will pour out my spirit upon you; I will make known my words unto you. | Be turned again by my sharp words: see, I will send the flow of my spirit on you, and make my words clear to you. | Turn back at my reproof, lo, I pour forth to you my spirit, I make known my words with you. | Turn at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you. I will make known my words to you. |
| Proverbs 1:24 | Because I have called, and ye have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man hath regarded; | Because your ears were shut to my voice; no one gave attention to my out-stretched hand; | Because I have called, and ye refuse, I stretched out my hand, and none is attending, | Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one has paid attention; |
| Proverbs 1:25 | But ye have set at nought all my counsel, And would none of my reproof: | You were not controlled by my guiding, and would have nothing to do with my sharp words: | And ye slight all my counsel, And my reproof ye have not desired. | But you have ignored all my counsel, And wanted none of my reproof; |
| Proverbs 1:26 | I also will laugh in [the day of] your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; | So in the day of your trouble I will be laughing; I will make sport of your fear; | I also in your calamity do laugh, I deride when your fear cometh, | I also will laugh at your disaster. I will mock when calamity overtakes you; |
| Proverbs 1:27 | When your fear cometh as a storm, And your calamity cometh on as a whirlwind; When distress and anguish come upon you. | When your fear comes on you like a storm, and your trouble like a rushing wind; when pain and sorrow come on you. | When your fear cometh as destruction, And your calamity as a hurricane doth come, When on you come adversity and distress. | When calamity overtakes you like a storm, When your disaster comes on like a whirlwind; When distress and anguish come on you. |
| Proverbs 1:28 | Then will they call upon me, but I will not answer; They will seek me diligently, but they shall not find me: | Then I will give no answer to their cries; searching for me early, they will not see me: | Then they call me, and I do not answer, They seek me earnestly, and find me not. | Then will they call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me; |
| Proverbs 1:29 | For that they hated knowledge, And did not choose the fear of Jehovah: | For they were haters of knowledge, and did not give their hearts to the fear of the Lord: | Because that they have hated knowledge, And the fear of Jehovah have not chosen. | Because they hated knowledge, And didn't choose the fear of Yahweh. |
| Proverbs 1:30 | They would none of my counsel; They despised all my reproof. | They had no desire for my teaching, and my words of protest were as nothing to them. | They have not consented to my counsel, They have despised all my reproof, | They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof. |
| Proverbs 1:31 | Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, And be filled with their own devices. | So the fruit of their way will be their food, and with the designs of their hearts they will be made full. | And they eat of the fruit of their way, And from their own counsels they are filled. | Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, And be filled with their own schemes. |
| Proverbs 1:32 | For the backsliding of the simple shall slay them, And the careless ease of fools shall destroy them. | For the turning back of the simple from teaching will be the cause of their death, and the peace of the foolish will be their destruction. | For the turning of the simple slayeth them, And the security of the foolish destroyeth them. | For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them. |
| Proverbs 1:33 | But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell securely, And shall be quiet without fear of evil. | But whoever gives ear to me will take his rest safely, living in peace without fear of evil. | And whoso is hearkening to me dwelleth confidently, And [is] quiet from fear of evil!` | But whoever listens to me will dwell securely, And will be at ease, without fear of harm." |
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