Proverbs 1
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The Beginning of Knowledge
1The #1 Kin. 4:32; Prov. 10:1; 25:1; Eccl. 12:9proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel:
2To know wisdom and instruction,
To perceive the words of understanding,
3To receive the instruction of wisdom,
Justice, judgment, and equity;
4To give prudence to the #Prov. 9:4simple,
To the young man knowledge and discretion—
5#Prov. 9:9A wise man will hear and increase learning,
And a man of understanding will attain wise counsel,
6To understand a proverb and an enigma,
The words of the wise and their #Num. 12:8; Ps. 78:2; Dan. 8:23riddles.
7#Job 28:28; Ps. 111:10; Prov. 9:10; 15:33; (Eccl. 12:13)The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge,
But fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Shun Evil Counsel
8#Prov. 4:1My son, hear the instruction of your father,
And do not forsake the law of your mother;
9For they will be a #Prov. 3:22graceful ornament on your head,
And chains about your neck.
10My son, if sinners entice you,
#Gen. 39:7–10; Deut. 13:8; Ps. 50:18; (Eph. 5:11)Do not consent.
11If they say, “Come with us,
Let us #Prov. 12:6; Jer. 5:26lie in wait to shed blood;
Let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;
12Let us swallow them alive like Sheol,
And whole, #Ps. 28:1like those who go down to the Pit;
13We shall find all kinds of precious possessions,
We shall fill our houses with spoil;
14Cast in your lot among us,
Let us all have one purse”—
15My son, #Ps. 1:1; Prov. 4:14do not walk in the way with them,
#Ps. 119:101Keep your foot from their path;
16#Prov. 6:17, 18; (Is. 59:7); Rom. 3:15For their feet run to evil,
And they make haste to shed blood.
17Surely, in vain the net is spread
In the sight of any bird;
18But they lie in wait for their own blood,
They lurk secretly for their own lives.
19#Prov. 15:27; (1 Tim. 6:10)So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain;
It takes away the life of its owners.
The Call of Wisdom
20#Prov. 8:1; 9:3; (John 7:37)Wisdom calls aloud outside;
She raises her voice in the open squares.
21She cries out in the chief concourses,
At the openings of the gates in the city
She speaks her words:
22“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity?
For scorners delight in their scorning,
And fools hate knowledge.
23Turn at my rebuke;
Surely #Is. 32:15; Joel 2:28; (John 7:39)I will pour out my spirit on you;
I will make my words known to you.
24#Is. 65:12; 66:4; Jer. 7:13; Zech. 7:11Because I have called and you refused,
I have stretched out my hand and no one regarded,
25Because you #Ps. 107:11; Luke 7:30disdained all my counsel,
And would have none of my rebuke,
26#Ps. 2:4I also will laugh at your calamity;
I will mock when your terror comes,
27When #(Prov. 10:24, 25)your terror comes like a storm,
And your destruction comes like a whirlwind,
When distress and anguish come upon you.
28“Then#1 Sam. 8:18; Job 27:9; 35:12; Ps. 18:41; Is. 1:15; Jer. 11:11; 14:12; Ezek. 8:18; Mic. 3:4; Zech. 7:13; (James 4:3) they will call on me, but I will not answer;
They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me.
29Because they #Job 21:14; Prov. 1:22hated knowledge
And did not #Ps. 119:173choose the fear of the Lord,
30#Ps. 81:11; Prov. 1:25They would have none of my counsel
And despised my every rebuke.
31Therefore #Job 4:8; Prov. 5:22, 23; 22:8; Is. 3:11; Jer. 6:19they shall eat the fruit of their own way,
And be filled to the full with their own fancies.
32For the turning away of the simple will slay them,
And the complacency of fools will destroy them;
33But whoever listens to me will dwell #Prov. 3:24–26safely,
And #Ps. 112:7will be secure, without fear of evil.”
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Mishle 1
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1Mishlei Sh'lomo Ben Dovid, Melech Yisroel;
2To have da'as of chochmah and musar (discipline); to understand the words of binah;
3To receive the musar of those with seichel, tzedek and mishpat, and meisharim (equity, uprightness);
4To give subtlety to the simple, to the na'ar, da'as and discretion.
5A chacham (wise person) will hear, and will increase learning, and a man of understanding shall acquire wise counsel:
6To understand a mashal (proverb), and the melitzah (enigma); the divrei chachamim, and their chidot (riddles).
7The Yirat Hashem is the reshit da'as, but fools despise chochmah and musar.
8Beni (my son), hear the musar Avicha, and forsake not the Torat Immecha.
9For they shall be a garland of chen unto thy rosh, and a chain about thy neck.
10Beni (my son), if chatt'aim (sinners) entice thee, consent thou not.
11If they say, Come with us, let us lie in wait for dahm, let us lurk secretly for the naki (innocent, harmless) chinnom (without cause);
12Let us swallow them up chayyim (alive) like She'ol; and whole, as those that go down into the bor (pit);
13We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill bateinu (our houses) with plunder;
14Throw in thy goral (lot) among us; let all of us have kis echad (one pouch, purse).
15Beni (my son), walk not thou in the derech with them; refrain thy regel from their path;
16For their raglayim run to rah, and make haste for shefach dahm (shedding of blood).
17Surely in vain the reshet (net) is spread in the eyes of kol ba'al kanaf (all the birds);#1:17 i.e., lit. master of [the] wing
18And they lie in wait for their own dahm; they lurk secretly for their own nafshot.
19So 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.
20Chochmot crieth out in the street; she lifts up her voice in the rechovot (city squares);
21She 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,
22Ad mosai, ye simple ones, will ye love being simpletons? And the scoffers delight in their mockery, and kesilim (fools) hate da'as?
23Turn you at my tokhechah (reproof); hinei, I will pour out my ruach unto you, I will make known my devarim unto you.
24Because I have called, and ye refused, I have stretched out my yad, and no man regarded;
25But ye have disdained all my etza (counsel), and would have none of my tokhechah (reproof);
26I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your pachad (terror) cometh;
27When your pachad (terror) cometh like a storm, and your calamity cometh like a whirlwind; when tzarah (distress) and oppression cometh upon you.
28Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall look for me diligently, but they shall not find me;
29For that they hated da'as, and did not choose the Yirat Hashem;
30They would have none of my etza (counsel); they despised all my tokhechah (reproof).
31Therefore shall they eat of the p'ri (fruit) of their own derech, and be filled with their own mo'atzot (schemes, devices).
32For the waywardness of the simple shall slay them, and the complacent contentment of kesilim (fools) shall destroy them.
33But the one who payeth heed unto me#1:33 Chochmat Hashem, i.e., the Redemptive Word, not only Hashemʼs 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).
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