Proverbs 1
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To Know Wisdom
1The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel:
2To know wisdom and discipline,
To understand the sayings of understanding,
3To receive discipline #1:3 Lit ofthat leads to insight,
Righteousness, justice, and equity,
4To give prudence to the #1:4 Or naivesimple,
To the youth knowledge and discretion;
5Let the wise man hear and increase in learning,
And a man of understanding will acquire guidance,
6To understand a proverb and an enigma,
The words of the wise and their riddles.
7¶The fear of #1:7 The personal covenant name of God, a form of I AM WHO I AM, cf. Ex 3:14-15Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge;
# 1:7 One who lacks wisdom due to negligence or carelessness; so in Prov Ignorant fools despise wisdom and discipline.
The Enticement of Sinners
8¶Hear, my son, your father’s discipline
And do not abandon your mother’s #1:8 Or lawinstruction;
9For they are a garland of grace for your head
And #1:9 Lit necklacesornaments about your neck.
10My son, if sinners entice you,
Do not be willing.
11If they say, “Come with us,
Let us lie in wait for blood,
Let us ambush the innocent without cause;
12Let us swallow them alive like Sheol,
And whole, as those who go down to the pit;
13We will find all kinds of precious wealth,
We will fill our houses with spoil;
14Cast in your lot #1:14 Lit in the midst of uswith us,
We shall all have one purse,”
15My son, do not walk in the way with them.
Withhold your feet from their pathway,
16For their feet run to evil
And they hasten to shed blood.
17For it is #1:17 Lit in vainno use that a net is spread
In the sight of any #1:17 Lit possessor of wingbird;
18But they lie in wait for their own blood;
They ambush their own #1:18 Lit soulslives.
19So are the paths of everyone who is greedy for gain;
It takes away the #1:19 Lit soullife of its possessors.
The Call of Wisdom
20¶Wisdom shouts in the street,
She gives forth her voice in the square;
21At the head of the noisy streets she calls out;
At the entrance of the gates in the city she utters her sayings:
22“How long, O simple ones, will you love simplicity?
And scoffers delight in scoffing
And #1:22 One who fails in wisdom due to willful sinfools hate knowledge?
23“Turn to my reproof,
Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you;
I will make my words known to you.
24“Because I called and you refused,
I stretched out my hand and no one paid attention;
25And you neglected all my counsel
And were not willing to accept my reproof;
26I will also laugh at your disaster;
I will mock when your dread comes,
27When your dread comes like a storm
And your disaster comes like a whirlwind,
When distress and anguish come upon you.
28“Then they will call on me, but I will not answer;
They will seek me earnestly but they will not find me,
29Because they hated knowledge
And did not choose the fear of Yahweh.
30“They were not willing to accept my counsel,
They spurned all my reproof.
31“So they shall eat of the fruit of their way
And be satisfied with their own devices.
32“For the turning away of the simple will kill them,
And the complacency of fools will destroy them.
33“But he who listens to me shall dwell securely
And will be at ease from the dread of evil.”
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