Proverbs 1 — YLT

1Verse 1Proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel:^{Verse 2}For knowing wisdom and instruction, For understanding sayings of intelligence,^{Verse 3}For receiving the instruction of wisdom, Righteousness, judgment, and uprightness,^{Verse 4}For giving to simple ones — prudence, To a youth — knowledge and discretion.^{Verse 5}(The wise doth hear and increaseth learning, And the intelligent doth obtain counsels.)^{Verse 6}For understanding a proverb and its sweetness, Words of the wise and their acute sayings.^{Verse 7}Fear of Jehovah [is] a beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and instruction fools have despised!^{Verse 8}Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother,^{Verse 9}For a graceful wreath [are] they to thy head, And chains to thy neck.^{Verse 10}My son, if sinners entice thee be not willing.^{Verse 11}If they say, 'Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause,^{Verse 12}We swallow them as Sheol — alive, And whole — as those going down [to] the pit,^{Verse 13}Every precious substance we find, We fill our houses [with] spoil,^{Verse 14}Thy lot thou dost cast among us, One purse is — to all of us.'^{Verse 15}My son! go not in the way with them, Withhold thy foot from their path,^{Verse 16}For their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed blood.^{Verse 17}Surely in vain is the net spread out before the eyes of any bird.^{Verse 18}And they for their own blood lay wait, They watch secretly for their own lives.^{Verse 19}So [are] the paths of every gainer of dishonest gain, The life of its owners it taketh.^{Verse 20}Wisdom in an out-place crieth aloud, In broad places she giveth forth her voice,^{Verse 21}At the head of the multitudes she calleth, In the openings of the gates, In the city her sayings she saith:^{Verse 22}'Till when, ye simple, do ye love simplicity? And have scorners their scorning desired? And do fools hate knowledge?^{Verse 23}Turn back at my reproof, lo, I pour forth to you my spirit, I make known my words with you.^{Verse 24}Because I have called, and ye refuse, I stretched out my hand, and none is attending,^{Verse 25}And ye slight all my counsel, And my reproof ye have not desired.^{Verse 26}I also in your calamity do laugh, I deride when your fear cometh,^{Verse 27}When your fear cometh as destruction, And your calamity as a hurricane doth come, When on you come adversity and distress.^{Verse 28}Then they call me, and I do not answer, They seek me earnestly, and find me not.^{Verse 29}Because that they have hated knowledge, And the fear of Jehovah have not chosen.^{Verse 30}They have not consented to my counsel, They have despised all my reproof,^{Verse 31}And they eat of the fruit of their way, And from their own counsels they are filled.^{Verse 32}For the turning of the simple slayeth them, And the security of the foolish destroyeth them.^{Verse 33}And whoso is hearkening to me dwelleth confidently, And [is] quiet from fear of evil!'