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| Proverbs 1: (YLT) |
| 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!' |