Proverbs 1:1-33 LSV

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