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Proverbs 1

The Bible in Basic English BBE

1 The wise sayings of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel.

2 To have knowledge of wise teaching; to be clear about the words of reason:

3 To be trained in the ways of wisdom, in righteousness and judging truly and straight behaviour:

4 To make the simple-minded sharp, and to give the young man knowledge, and serious purpose:

5 (The wise man, hearing, will get greater learning, and the acts of the man of good sense will be wisely guided:)

6 To get the sense of wise sayings and secrets, and of the words of the wise and their dark sayings.

7 The fear of the Lord is the start of knowledge: but the foolish have no use for wisdom and teaching.

8 My son, give ear to the training of your father, and do not give up the teaching of your mother:

9 For they will be a crown of grace for your head, and chain-ornaments about your neck.

10 My son, if sinners would take you out of the right way, do not go with them.

11 If they say, Come with us; let us make designs against the good, waiting secretly for the upright, without cause;

12 Let us overcome them living, like the underworld, and in their strength, as those who go down to death;

13 Goods of great price will be ours, our houses will be full of wealth;

14 Take your chance with us, and we will all have one money-bag:

15 My son, do not go with them; keep your feet from their ways:

16 For their feet are running after evil, and they are quick to take a man's life.

17 Truly, to no purpose is the net stretched out before the eyes of the bird:

18 And they are secretly waiting for their blood and making ready destruction for themselves.

19 Such is the fate of everyone who goes in search of profit; it takes away the life of its owners.

20 Wisdom is crying out in the street; her voice is loud in the open places;

21 Her words are sounding in the meeting-places, and in the doorways of the town:

22 How long, you simple ones, will foolish things be dear to you? and pride a delight to the haters of authority? how long will the foolish go on hating knowledge?

23 Be turned again by my sharp words: see, I will send the flow of my spirit on you, and make my words clear to you.

24 Because your ears were shut to my voice; no one gave attention to my out-stretched hand;

25 You were not controlled by my guiding, and would have nothing to do with my sharp words:

26 So in the day of your trouble I will be laughing; I will make sport of your fear;

27 When your fear comes on you like a storm, and your trouble like a rushing wind; when pain and sorrow come on you.

28 Then I will give no answer to their cries; searching for me early, they will not see me:

29 For they were haters of knowledge, and did not give their hearts to the fear of the Lord:

30 They had no desire for my teaching, and my words of protest were as nothing to them.

31 So the fruit of their way will be their food, and with the designs of their hearts they will be made full.

32 For the turning back of the simple from teaching will be the cause of their death, and the peace of the foolish will be their destruction.

33 But whoever gives ear to me will take his rest safely, living in peace without fear of evil.

Orthodox Jewish Bible OJB

1 Mishlei Sh’lomo Ben Dovid, Melech Yisroel;

2 To have da’as of chochmah and musar (discipline); to understand the words of binah;

3 To receive the musar of those with seichel, tzedek and mishpat, and meisharim (equity, uprightness);

4 To give subtlety to the simple, to the na’ar, da’as and discretion.

5 A chacham (wise person) will hear, and will increase learning, and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:

6 To understand a mashal (proverb), and the melitzah (enigma); the divrei chachamim, and their chidot (riddles).

7 The Yirat Hashem is the reshit da’as, but fools despise chochmah and musar.

8 Beni (my son), hear the musar Avicha, and forsake not the Torat Immecha.

9 For they shall be a garland of chen unto thy rosh, and a chain about thy neck.

10 Beni (my son), if chatt’aim (sinners) entice thee, consent thou not.

11 If they say, Come with us, let us lie in wait for dahm, let us lurk secretly for the naki (innocent, harmless) chinnom (without cause);

12 Let us swallow them up chayyim (alive) like She’ol; and whole, as those that go down into the bor (pit);

13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill bateinu (our houses) with plunder;

14 Throw in thy goral (lot) among us; let all of us have kis echad (one pouch, purse).

15 Beni (my son), walk not thou in the derech with them; refrain thy regel from their path;

16 For their raglayim run to rah, and make haste for shefach dahm (shedding of blood).

17 Surely in vain the reshet (net) is spread in the eyes of kol ba’al kanaf (all the birds, i.e., lit. master of [the] wing);

18 And they lie in wait for their own dahm; they lurk secretly for their own nafshot.

19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy for betza (ill-gotten gain); which taketh away the nefesh of the be’alim (owners) thereof.

20 Chochmot crieth out in the street; she lifts up her voice in the rechovot (city squares);

21 She crieth out in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the she’arim (gates); in the Ir (city) she uttereth her words, saying,

22 Ad mosai, ye simple ones, will ye love being simpletons? And the scoffers delight in their mockery, and kesilim (fools) hate da’as?

23 Turn you at my tokhechah (reproof); hinei, I will pour out my ruach unto you, I will make known my devarim unto you.

24 Because I have called, and ye refused, I have stretched out my yad, and no man regarded;

25 But ye have disdained all my etza (counsel), and would have none of my tokhechah (reproof);

26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your pachad (terror) cometh;

27 When your pachad (terror) cometh like a storm, and your calamity cometh like a whirlwind; when tzarah (distress) and oppression cometh upon you.

28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall look for me diligently, but they shall not find me;

29 For that they hated da’as, and did not choose the Yirat Hashem;

30 They would have none of my etza (counsel); they despised all my tokhechah (reproof).

31 Therefore shall they eat of the p’ri (fruit) of their own derech, and be filled with their own mo’atzot (schemes, devices).

32 For the waywardness of the simple shall slay them, and the complacent contentment of kesilim (fools) shall destroy them.

33 But the one who payeth heed unto me [Chochmat Hashem, i.e., the Redemptive Word, not only Hashem’s creative agent (Ps 33:6; Prov 8:30; 30:4) but the one who comes with a healing mission according to Ps 107:20, though Moshiach has to die in the midst of his healing Mission to accomplish our healing from guilt and punitive dread-Isa 53:5] shall dwell safely, and shall be secure from pachad ra’ah (terror of evil).