Young's Literal Translation: Proverbs Page 1

1:1 Proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel:

1:3 For receiving the instruction of wisdom, Righteousness, judgment, and uprightness,

1:4 For giving to simple ones -- prudence, To a youth -- knowledge and discretion.

1:5 (The wise doth hear and increaseth learning, And the intelligent doth obtain counsels.)

1:6 For understanding a proverb and its sweetness, Words of the wise and their acute sayings.

1:7 Fear of Jehovah [is] a beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and instruction fools have despised!

1:8 Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother,

1:9 For a graceful wreath [are] they to thy head, And chains to thy neck.

1:10 My son, if sinners entice thee be not willing.

1:11 If they say, `Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause,

1:12 We swallow them as Sheol -- alive, And whole -- as those going down [to] the pit,

1:13 Every precious substance we find, We fill our houses [with] spoil,

1:14 Thy lot thou dost cast among us, One purse is -- to all of us.'

1:15 My son! go not in the way with them, Withhold thy foot from their path,

1:16 For their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed blood.

1:17 Surely in vain is the net spread out before the eyes of any bird.

1:18 And they for their own blood lay wait, They watch secretly for their own lives.

1:19 So [are] the paths of every gainer of dishonest gain, The life of its owners it taketh.

1:20 Wisdom in an out-place crieth aloud, In broad places she giveth forth her voice,

1:21 At the head of the multitudes she calleth, In the openings of the gates, In the city her sayings she saith:

1:22 `Till when, ye simple, do ye love simplicity? And have scorners their scorning desired? And do fools hate knowledge?

1:23 Turn back at my reproof, lo, I pour forth to you my spirit, I make known my words with you.

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