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1 Proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel:
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1 The proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel:
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2 For knowing wisdom and instruction, For understanding sayings of intelligence,
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2 for attaining wisdom and discipline; for understanding words of insight;
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3 For receiving the instruction of wisdom, Righteousness, judgment, and uprightness,
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3 for acquiring a disciplined and prudent life, doing what is right and just and fair;
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4 For giving to simple ones -- prudence, To a youth -- knowledge and discretion.
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4 for giving prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young--
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5 (The wise doth hear and increaseth learning, And the intelligent doth obtain counsels.)
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5 let the wise listen and add to their learning, and let the discerning get guidance--
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6 For understanding a proverb and its sweetness, Words of the wise and their acute sayings.
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6 for understanding proverbs and parables, the sayings and riddles of the wise.
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7 Fear of Jehovah [is] a beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and instruction fools have despised!
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7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
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8 Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother,
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8 Listen, my son, to your father's instruction and do not forsake your mother's teaching.
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9 For a graceful wreath [are] they to thy head, And chains to thy neck.
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9 They will be a garland to grace your head and a chain to adorn your neck.
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10 My son, if sinners entice thee be not willing.
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10 My son, if sinners entice you, do not give in to them.
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11 If they say, `Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause,
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11 If they say, "Come along with us; let's lie in wait for someone's blood, let's waylay some harmless soul;
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12 We swallow them as Sheol -- alive, And whole -- as those going down [to] the pit,
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12 let's swallow them alive, like the grave, and whole, like those who go down to the pit;
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13 Every precious substance we find, We fill our houses [with] spoil,
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13 we will get all sorts of valuable things and fill our houses with plunder;
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14 Thy lot thou dost cast among us, One purse is -- to all of us.'
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14 throw in your lot with us, and we will share a common purse"--
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15 My son! go not in the way with them, Withhold thy foot from their path,
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15 my son, do not go along with them, do not set foot on their paths;
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16 For their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed blood.
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16 for their feet rush into sin, they are swift to shed blood.
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17 Surely in vain is the net spread out before the eyes of any bird.
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17 How useless to spread a net in full view of all the birds!
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18 And they for their own blood lay wait, They watch secretly for their own lives.
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18 These men lie in wait for their own blood; they waylay only themselves!
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19 So [are] the paths of every gainer of dishonest gain, The life of its owners it taketh.
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19 Such is the end of all who go after ill-gotten gain; it takes away the lives of those who get it.
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20 Wisdom in an out-place crieth aloud, In broad places she giveth forth her voice,
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20 Wisdom calls aloud in the street, she raises her voice in the public squares;
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21 At the head of the multitudes she calleth, In the openings of the gates, In the city her sayings she saith:
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21 at the head of the noisy streets she cries out, in the gateways of the city she makes her speech:
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22 `Till when, ye simple, do ye love simplicity? And have scorners their scorning desired? And do fools hate knowledge?
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22 "How long will you simple ones love your simple ways? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge?
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23 Turn back at my reproof, lo, I pour forth to you my spirit, I make known my words with you.
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23 If you had responded to my rebuke, I would have poured out my heart to you and made my thoughts known to you.
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24 Because I have called, and ye refuse, I stretched out my hand, and none is attending,
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24 But since you rejected me when I called and no one gave heed when I stretched out my hand,
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25 And ye slight all my counsel, And my reproof ye have not desired.
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25 since you ignored all my advice and would not accept my rebuke,
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26 I also in your calamity do laugh, I deride when your fear cometh,
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26 I in turn will laugh at your disaster; I will mock when calamity overtakes you--
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27 When your fear cometh as destruction, And your calamity as a hurricane doth come, When on you come adversity and distress.
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27 when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when disaster sweeps over you like a whirlwind, when distress and trouble overwhelm you.
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28 Then they call me, and I do not answer, They seek me earnestly, and find me not.
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28 "Then they will call to me but I will not answer; they will look for me but will not find me.
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29 Because that they have hated knowledge, And the fear of Jehovah have not chosen.
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29 Since they hated knowledge and did not choose to fear the LORD,
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30 They have not consented to my counsel, They have despised all my reproof,
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30 since they would not accept my advice and spurned my rebuke,
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31 And they eat of the fruit of their way, And from their own counsels they are filled.
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31 they will eat the fruit of their ways and be filled with the fruit of their schemes.
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32 For the turning of the simple slayeth them, And the security of the foolish destroyeth them.
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32 For the waywardness of the simple will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them;
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33 And whoso is hearkening to me dwelleth confidently, And [is] quiet from fear of evil!'
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33 but whoever listens to me will live in safety and be at ease, without fear of harm."
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