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King James Bible |
Youngs Literal Translation
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| 1:1 |
The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; |
Proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel: |
| 1:2 |
To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding; |
For knowing wisdom and instruction, For understanding sayings of intelligence, |
| 1:3 |
To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity; |
For receiving the instruction of wisdom, Righteousness, judgment, and uprightness, |
| 1:4 |
To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion. |
For giving to simple ones -- prudence, To a youth -- knowledge and discretion. |
| 1:5 |
A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels: |
(The wise doth hear and increaseth learning, And the intelligent doth obtain counsels.) |
| 1:6 |
To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings. |
For understanding a proverb and its sweetness, Words of the wise and their acute sayings. |
| 1:7 |
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction. |
Fear of Jehovah `is' a beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and instruction fools have despised! |
| 1:8 |
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: |
Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother, |
| 1:9 |
For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck. |
For a graceful wreath `are' they to thy head, And chains to thy neck. |
| 1:10 |
My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. |
My son, if sinners entice thee be not willing. |
| 1:11 |
If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: |
If they say, `Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause, |
| 1:12 |
Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: |
We swallow them as Sheol -- alive, And whole -- as those going down `to' the pit, |
| 1:13 |
We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil: |
Every precious substance we find, We fill our houses `with' spoil, |
| 1:14 |
Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse: |
Thy lot thou dost cast among us, One purse is -- to all of us.' |
| 1:15 |
My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path: |
My son! go not in the way with them, Withhold thy foot from their path, |
| 1:16 |
For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. |
For their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed blood. |
| 1:17 |
Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. |
Surely in vain is the net spread out before the eyes of any bird. |
| 1:18 |
And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives. |
And they for their own blood lay wait, They watch secretly for their own lives. |
| 1:19 |
So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof. |
So `are' the paths of every gainer of dishonest gain, The life of its owners it taketh. |
| 1:20 |
Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: |
Wisdom in an out-place crieth aloud, In broad places she giveth forth her voice, |
| 1:21 |
She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying, |
At the head of the multitudes she calleth, In the openings of the gates, In the city her sayings she saith: |
| 1:22 |
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? |
`Till when, ye simple, do ye love simplicity? And have scorners their scorning desired? And do fools hate knowledge? |
| 1:23 |
Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you. |
Turn back at my reproof, lo, I pour forth to you my spirit, I make known my words with you. |
| 1:24 |
Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; |
Because I have called, and ye refuse, I stretched out my hand, and none is attending, |
| 1:25 |
But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: |
And ye slight all my counsel, And my reproof ye have not desired. |
| 1:26 |
I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; |
I also in your calamity do laugh, I deride when your fear cometh, |
| 1:27 |
When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. |
When your fear cometh as destruction, And your calamity as a hurricane doth come, When on you come adversity and distress. |
| 1:28 |
Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: |
Then they call me, and I do not answer, They seek me earnestly, and find me not. |
| 1:29 |
For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD: |
Because that they have hated knowledge, And the fear of Jehovah have not chosen. |
| 1:30 |
They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof. |
They have not consented to my counsel, They have despised all my reproof, |
| 1:31 |
Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. |
And they eat of the fruit of their way, And from their own counsels they are filled. |
| 1:32 |
For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. |
For the turning of the simple slayeth them, And the security of the foolish destroyeth them. |
| 1:33 |
But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil. |
And whoso is hearkening to me dwelleth confidently, And `is' quiet from fear of evil!' |
