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| Proverbs 1:1 | The parables of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel. | The wise sayings of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel. |
| Proverbs 1:2 | To know wisdom, and instruction: | To have knowledge of wise teaching; to be clear about the words of reason: |
| Proverbs 1:3 | To understand the words of prudence: and to receive the instruction of doctrine, justice, and judgment, and equity: | To be trained in the ways of wisdom, in righteousness and judging truly and straight behaviour: |
| Proverbs 1:4 | To give subtilty to little ones, to the young man knowledge and understanding. | To make the simple-minded sharp, and to give the young man knowledge, and serious purpose: |
| Proverbs 1:5 | A wise man shall hear and shall be wiser: and he that understandeth, shall possess governments. | (The wise man, hearing, will get greater learning, and the acts of the man of good sense will be wisely guided:) |
| Proverbs 1:6 | He shall understand a parable, and the interpretation, the words of the wise, and their mysterious sayings. | To get the sense of wise sayings and secrets, and of the words of the wise and their dark sayings. |
| Proverbs 1:7 | The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Fools despise wisdom and instruction. | The fear of the Lord is the start of knowledge: but the foolish have no use for wisdom and teaching. |
| 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: |
| Proverbs 1:9 | That grace may be added to thy head, and a chain of gold to thy neck. | For they will be a crown of grace for your head, and chain-ornaments about your neck. |
| Proverbs 1:10 | My son, if sinners shall entice thee, consent not to them. | My son, if sinners would take you out of the right way, do not go with them. |
| Proverbs 1:11 | If they shall say: Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us hide snares 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; |
| Proverbs 1:12 | Let us swallow him up alive like hell, and whole as one that goeth down into the pit. | Let us overcome them living, like the underworld, and in their strength, as those who go down to death; |
| Proverbs 1:13 | We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoils. | Goods of great price will be ours, our houses will be full of wealth; |
| Proverbs 1:14 | Cast in thy lot with us, let us all have one purse. | Take your chance with us, and we will all have one money-bag: |
| Proverbs 1:15 | My son, walk not thou with them, restrain thy foot from their paths. | My son, do not go with them; keep your feet from their ways: |
| Proverbs 1:16 | For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. | For their feet are running after evil, and they are quick to take a man's life. |
| Proverbs 1:17 | But a net is spread in vain before the eyes of them that have wings. | Truly, to no purpose is the net stretched out before the eyes of the bird: |
| Proverbs 1:18 | And they themselves lie in wait for their own blood, and practise deceits against their own souls. | And they are secretly waiting for their blood and making ready destruction for themselves. |
| Proverbs 1:19 | So the wage of every covetous man destroy the souls of the possessors. | Such is the fate of everyone who goes in search of profit; it takes away the life of its owners. |
| Proverbs 1:20 | Wisdom preacheth abroad, she uttereth her voice in the streets: | Wisdom is crying out in the street; her voice is loud in the open places; |
| Proverbs 1:21 | At the head of multitudes she crieth out, in the entrance of the gates of the city she uttereth her words, saying: | Her words are sounding in the meeting-places, and in the doorways of the town: |
| Proverbs 1:22 | O children, how long will you love childishness, and fools covet those things which are hurtful to themselves, and the unwise 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? |
| Proverbs 1:23 | Turn ye at my reproof: behold I will utter my spirit to you, and will shew you my words. | 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. |
| Proverbs 1:24 | Because I called, and you refused: I stretched out my hand, and there was none that regarded. | Because your ears were shut to my voice; no one gave attention to my out-stretched hand; |
| Proverbs 1:25 | You have despised all my counsel, and have neglected my reprehensions. | You were not controlled by my guiding, and would have nothing to do with my sharp words: |
| Proverbs 1:26 | I also will laugh in your destruction, and will mock when that shall come to you which you feared. | So in the day of your trouble I will be laughing; I will make sport of your fear; |
| Proverbs 1:27 | When sudden calamity shall fall on you, and destruction, as a tempest, shall be at hand: when tribulation and distress shall come upon you: | When your fear comes on you like a storm, and your trouble like a rushing wind; when pain and sorrow come on you. |
| Proverbs 1:28 | Then shall they call upon me, and I will not hear: they shall rise in the morning and shall not find me: | Then I will give no answer to their cries; searching for me early, they will not see me: |
| Proverbs 1:29 | Because they have hated instruction and received not the fear of the Lord, | For they were haters of knowledge, and did not give their hearts to the fear of the Lord: |
| Proverbs 1:30 | Nor consented to my counsel, but despised all my reproof. | They had no desire for my teaching, and my words of protest were as nothing to them. |
| Proverbs 1:31 | Therefore they shall eat the fruit of their own way, and shall 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. |
| Proverbs 1:32 | The turning away of little ones shall kill them, and the prosperity 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. |
| Proverbs 1:33 | But he that shall hear me, shall rest without terror, and shall enjoy abundance, without fear of evils. | But whoever gives ear to me will take his rest safely, living in peace without fear of evil. |
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