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Proverbs 1
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901
1The wise sayings of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel.
1The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel:
2To have knowledge of wise teaching; to be clear about the words of reason:
2 To know wisdom and instruction; To discern the words of understanding;
3To be trained in the ways of wisdom, in righteousness and judging truly and straight behaviour:
3To receive instruction in wise dealing, In righteousness and justice and equity;
4To make the simple-minded sharp, and to give the young man knowledge, and serious purpose:
4To give prudence to the simple, To the young man knowledge and discretion:
5(The wise man, hearing, will get greater learning, and the acts of the man of good sense will be wisely guided:)
5That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; And that the man of understanding may attain unto sound counsels:
6To get the sense of wise sayings and secrets, and of the words of the wise and their dark sayings.
6To understand a proverb, and a figure, The words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
7The fear of the Lord is the start of knowledge: but the foolish have no use for wisdom and teaching.
7 The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge; Butthe foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
8My son, give ear to the training of your father, and do not give up the teaching of your mother:
8My son, hear the instruction of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother:
9For they will be a crown of grace for your head, and chain-ornaments about your neck.
9For they shall be a chaplet of grace unto thy head, And chains about thy neck.
10My son, if sinners would take you out of the right way, do not go with them.
10My son, if sinners entice thee, Consent thou not.
11If they say, Come with us; let us make designs against the good, waiting secretly for the upright, without cause;
11If they say, Come with us, Let us lay wait for blood; Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause;
12Let us overcome them living, like the underworld, and in their strength, as those who go down to death;
12Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, And whole, as those that go down into the pit;
13Goods of great price will be ours, our houses will be full of wealth;
13We shall find all precious substance; We shall fill our houses with spoil;
14Take your chance with us, and we will all have one money-bag:
14Thou shalt cast thy lot among us; We will all have one purse:
15My son, do not go with them; keep your feet from their ways:
15My son, walk not thou in the way with them; Refrain thy foot from their path:
16For their feet are running after evil, and they are quick to take a man's life.
16For their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed blood.
17Truly, to no purpose is the net stretched out before the eyes of the bird:
17 For in vain is the net spread In the sight of any bird:
18And they are secretly waiting for their blood and making ready destruction for themselves.
18And these lay wait for their own blood; They lurk privily for their own lives.
19Such is the fate of everyone who goes in search of profit; it takes away the life of its owners.
19So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; It taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
20Wisdom is crying out in the street; her voice is loud in the open places;
20 Wisdom crieth aloud in the street; She uttereth her voice in the broad places;
21Her words are sounding in the meeting-places, and in the doorways of the town:
21She crieth in the chief place of concourse; At the entrance of the gates, In the city, she uttereth her words:
22How 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?
22How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And scoffers delight them in scoffing, And fools hate knowledge?
23Be turned again by my sharp words: see, I will send the flow of my spirit on you, and make my words clear to you.
23Turn you at my reproof: Behold, I will pour out my spirit upon you; I will make known my words unto you.
24Because your ears were shut to my voice; no one gave attention to my out-stretched hand;
24Because I have called, and ye have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man hath regarded;
25You were not controlled by my guiding, and would have nothing to do with my sharp words:
25But ye have set at nought all my counsel, And would none of my reproof:
26So in the day of your trouble I will be laughing; I will make sport of your fear;
26I also will laugh inthe day ofyour calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
27When your fear comes on you like a storm, and your trouble like a rushing wind; when pain and sorrow come on you.
27When your fear cometh as a storm, And your calamity cometh on as a whirlwind; When distress and anguish come upon you.
28Then I will give no answer to their cries; searching for me early, they will not see me:
28Then will they call upon me, but I will not answer; They will seek me diligently, but they shall not find me:
29For they were haters of knowledge, and did not give their hearts to the fear of the Lord:
29For that they hated knowledge, And did not choose the fear of Jehovah,
30They had no desire for my teaching, and my words of protest were as nothing to them.
30They would none of my counsel, They despised all my reproof.
31So the fruit of their way will be their food, and with the designs of their hearts they will be made full.
31Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, And be filled with their own devices.