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