Proverbs 1
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- 1The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
- 2To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
- 3To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
- 4To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
- 5A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain to wise counsels:
- 6To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
- 7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
- 8My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
- 9For they shalt be an ornament of grace to thy head, and chains about thy neck.
- 10My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
- 11If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
- 12Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
- 13We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
- 14Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
- 15My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
- 16For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
- 17Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
- 18And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
- 19So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; who taketh away the life of its owners.
- כֵּ֗ן
- כֵּ֗ןKen[are] thusH3651C
- אָ֭רְחוֹת
- אָ֭רְחוֹת'A.re.chot[the] paths ofH0734
- כָּל־
- כָּלkol-everyH3605
- בֹּ֣צֵֽעַ
- בֹּ֣צֵֽעַBo.tze.a'[one who] gains unjustlyH1214I
- בָּ֑צַע
- בָּ֑צַעBa.tza'unjust gainH1215
- אֶת־
- אֶת'et-<obj.>H0853
- נֶ֖פֶשׁ
- נֶ֖פֶשׁNe.fesh[the] life ofH5315H
- בְּעָלָ֣יו
- יִקָּֽח׃
- יִקָּֽחyi.Kachit will takeH3947G
- כֵּ֗ן
- 20Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
- 21She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,
- 22How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
- עַד־
- עַד'ad-untilH5704
- מָתַ֣י׀
- מָתַ֣יma.Taiwhen?H4970
- פְּתָיִם֮
- פְּתָיִם֮pe.ta.YimO naive peopleH6612A
- תְּֽאֵהֲב֫וּ
- תְּֽאֵהֲב֫וּte.'e.ha.Vuwill you loveH0157G
- פֶ֥תִי
- פֶ֥תִיFe.tinaiveteH6612B
- וְלֵצִ֗ים
- לָ֭צוֹן
- לָ֭צוֹןLa.tzonmockeryH3944
- חָמְד֣וּ
- חָמְד֣וּcha.me.Dudo they delight in?H2530A
- לָהֶ֑ם
- וּ֝כְסִילִ֗ים
- יִשְׂנְאוּ־
- יִשְׂנְאוּyis.ne.'u-will they hate?H8130
- דָֽעַת׃
- דָֽעַתDa.'atknowledgeH1847
- עַד־
- 23Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit to you, I will make known to you my words.
- 24Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
- 25But ye have set at naught all my counsel, and rejected my reproof:
- 26I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
- 27When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
- 28Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
- 29For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
- 30They rejected my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
- 31Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
- וְֽ֭יֹאכְלוּ
- מִפְּרִ֣י
- דַרְכָּ֑ם
- וּֽמִמֹּעֲצֹ֖תֵיהֶ֣ם
- יִשְׂבָּֽעוּ׃
- יִשְׂבָּֽעוּyis.Ba.'uthey will be surfeitedH7646
- 32For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
- 33But whoever hearkeneth to me shall dwell in safety, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.
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