Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
YLT
Young's Literal Translation
These
are
the
proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel ,
Proverbs of Solomon ,
son of David, king of Israel :
for gaining
wisdom and discipline
, for comprehending
words
of insight
,
For knowing
wisdom and instruction
, For understanding
sayings
of intelligence
,
and
for receiving instruction in
wise
living
and
in
righteousness, justice
, and equity.
For receiving the
instruction of
wisdom,
Righteousness, judgment
, and uprightness,
To impart
prudence to the
simple
and
knowledge and discretion to
the
young,
For
giving
to simple
ones
--
prudence ,
To a
youth
--
knowledge and discretion .
let
the wise listen
and gain
instruction
, and the discerning
acquire
wise
counsel
(
The wise doth
hear
and increaseth
learning
, And the intelligent
doth
obtain
counsels.)
by
understanding the
proverbs
and parables
, the
sayings
and
riddles
of the wise.
For
understanding a
proverb
and its
sweetness
, Words
of the wise and
their
acute
sayings
.
The
fear of the
LORD
is the
beginning of knowledge, but
fools
despise
wisdom and discipline.
Fear of Jehovah
`
is '
a
beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and instruction
fools
have
despised!
Listen
, my son, to
your
father’s
instruction, and do
not forsake
the teaching
of your
mother .
Hear
, my son, the
instruction of
thy
father
, And leave
not the law
of thy
mother ,
For they
are
a garland
of
grace
on
your
head and a
pendant
around
your
neck.
For a graceful
wreath
`are'
they
to
thy
head ,
And chains
to
thy
neck.
My son, if sinners entice you,
do
not yield
to
them
.
My son, if sinners entice thee
be
not willing
.
If they say, “
Come along,
let
us lie
in
wait for blood, let
us
ambush
the innocent without cause,
If they say, `
Come with
us ,
we
lay
wait for blood, We
watch
secretly
for
the innocent without cause,
let
us
swallow them alive
like
Sheol, and whole like
those descending
into
the Pit .
We
swallow them as
Sheol --
alive
, And whole --
as
those going
down
`to'
the pit ,
We will
find all
manner
of
precious
goods;
we will
fill our houses with plunder.
Every
precious
substance
we find ,
We fill our houses `
with '
spoil,
Throw
in
your
lot with
us;
let
us all
share
one purse ”—
Thy
lot thou
dost
cast
among
us ,
One purse is
--
to
all
of
us.'
my son ,
do
not walk
the road
with them or
set
foot upon
their path .
My son !
go
not in
the way
with them ,
Withhold
thy
foot from
their path ,
For their feet run
to evil, and they are
swift
to shed blood.
For their feet to evil do
run
, And they haste
to shed blood.
How
futile
it
is to
spread
the net where
any bird can
see
it!
Surely
in
vain
is the net spread
out
before
the
eyes
of
any bird .
But
they lie
in
wait
for their own blood ;
they ambush
their own lives.
And
they for their own blood lay
wait,
They watch
secretly
for
their own lives.
Such
is
the fate
of all
who
are
greedy,
whose
unjust
gain takes
the lives
of its possessors
.
So
`are'
the paths
of every
gainer
of
dishonest
gain ,
The life
of its owners
it
taketh
.
Wisdom calls
out
in the
street
, she lifts
her voice in
the
square;
Wisdom in an
out-place
crieth
aloud
, In
broad
places
she giveth
forth
her voice ,
in
the main
concourse
she cries
aloud
, at
the city
gates she
makes
her speech
:
At
the head
of
the
multitudes
she calleth
, In
the openings
of
the
gates ,
In
the
city
her sayings
she
saith
:
“How
long
, O
simple ones
, will
you
love your
simple
ways
? How
long
will
scoffers
delight
in
their scorn
and fools hate knowledge?
`Till
when
, ye
simple, do
ye
love simplicity
? And
have
scorners
their scorning
desired?
And do
fools hate knowledge?
If
you
had
repented
at my rebuke
, then
surely
I would
have
poured
out
my spirit on
you;
I would
have
made
my words known
to
you.
Turn
back
at my reproof
, lo,
I pour
forth
to
you
my spirit ,
I make
known
my words with
you.
Because you
refused
my
call
, and no
one
took
my outstretched
hand,
Because I
have
called
, and ye
refuse,
I
stretched
out
my hand, and
none
is
attending,
because
you
neglected
all my counsel, and wanted
none
of
my correction,
And
ye
slight
all my counsel, And my reproof
ye
have
not
desired.
in
turn
I will
mock
your calamity ;
I will
sneer
when terror
strikes
you
,
I also
in
your calamity do
laugh,
I deride
when your
fear
cometh
,
when your dread
comes
like
a
storm
, and your destruction
like
a whirlwind
, when distress
and
anguish
overwhelm
you.
When your fear
cometh
as
destruction
, And your calamity
as
a hurricane
doth
come
, When on
you come
adversity
and
distress
.
Then they will
call on
me, but
I will
not answer ;
they will
earnestly
seek me, but
will
not
find me.
Then they call me, and
I do
not answer ,
They seek me earnestly
, and
find me not
.
For
they hated knowledge and chose
not
to
fear
the LORD
.
Because
that
they have
hated knowledge ,
And the fear
of
Jehovah
have
not
chosen
.
They accepted
none
of
my counsel ;
they despised all my reproof .
They have
not
consented
to
my counsel ,
They have
despised all my reproof ,
So
they will
eat 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
.
For the waywardness
of the simple will
slay
them, and the complacency
of fools
will
destroy
them.
For the turning
of the simple slayeth
them, And the security
of the
foolish
destroyeth
them.
But
whoever
listens
to me will
dwell
in
safety
, secure
from the
fear of evil .”
And
whoso
is
hearkening
to me dwelleth
confidently
, And
`is'
quiet
from fear of evil !'
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