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