Proverbs 1
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1The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;1The Proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel:
2To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;2To learn wisdom and moral instruction, and to discern wise counsel.
3To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;3To receive moral instruction in skillful living, in righteousness, justice, and equity.
4To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.4To impart shrewdness to the morally naive, and a discerning plan to the young person.
5A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:5(Let the wise also hear and gain instruction, and let the discerning acquire guidance!)
6To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.6To discern the meaning of a proverb and a parable, the sayings of the wise and their riddles.
7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.7Fearing the LORD is the beginning of moral knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
8My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:8Listen, my child, to the instruction from your father, and do not forsake the teaching from your mother.
9For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.9For they will be like an elegant garland on your head, and like pendants around your neck.
10My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.10My child, if sinners try to entice you, do not consent!
11If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:11If they say, "Come with us! We will lie in wait to shed blood; we will ambush an innocent person capriciously.
12Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:12We will swallow them alive like Sheol, those full of vigor like those going down to the Pit.
13We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:13We will seize all kinds of precious wealth; we will fill our houses with plunder.
14Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:14Join with us! We will all share equally in what we steal."
15My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:15My child, do not go down their way, withhold yourself from their path;
16For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.16for they are eager to inflict harm, and they hasten to shed blood.
17Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.17Surely it is futile to spread a net in plain sight of any bird,
18And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.18but these men lie in wait for their own blood, they ambush their own lives!
19So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.19Such are the ways of all who gain profit unjustly; it takes away the life of those who obtain it!
20Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:20Wisdom calls out in the street, she shouts loudly in the plazas;
21She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,21at the head of the noisy streets she calls, in the entrances of the gates in the city she utters her words:
22How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?22"How long will you simpletons love naivete? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge?
23Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.23If only you will respond to my rebuke, then I will pour out my thoughts to you and I will make my words known to you.
24Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;24However, because I called but you refused to listen, because I stretched out my hand but no one paid attention,
25But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:25because you neglected all my advice, and did not comply with my rebuke,
26I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;26so I myself will laugh when disaster strikes you, I will mock when what you dread comes,
27When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.27when what you dread comes like a whirlwind, and disaster strikes you like a devastating storm, when distressing trouble comes on you.
28Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:28Then they will call to me, but I will not answer; they will diligently seek me, but they will not find me.
29For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:29Because they hated moral knowledge, and did not choose to fear the LORD,
30They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.30they did not comply with my advice, they spurned all my rebuke.
31Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.31Therefore they will eat from the fruit of their way, and they will be stuffed full of their own counsel.
32For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.32For the waywardness of the simpletons will kill them, and the careless ease of fools will destroy them.
33But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.33But the one who listens to me will live in security, and will be at ease from the dread of harm.
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Psalm 150
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