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Proverbs 1
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949
1The parables of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel,
1The wise sayings of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel.
2To know wisdom, and instruction:
2To have knowledge of wise teaching; to be clear about the words of reason:
3To understand the words of prudence: and to receive the instruction of doctrine, justice, and judgment, and equity:
3To be trained in the ways of wisdom, in righteousness and judging truly and straight behaviour:
4To give subtilty to little ones, to the young man knowledge and understanding.
4To make the simple-minded sharp, and to give the young man knowledge, and serious purpose:
5A wise man shall hear, and shall be wiser: and he that understandeth shall possess governments.
5(The wise man, hearing, will get greater learning, and the acts of the man of good sense will be wisely guided:)
6He shall understand a parable and the interpretation, the words of the wise, and their mysterious sayings.
6To get the sense of wise sayings and secrets, and of the words of the wise and their dark sayings.
7The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Fools despise wisdom and instruction.
7The fear of the Lord is the start of knowledge: but the foolish have no use for wisdom and teaching.
8My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
8My son, give ear to the training of your father, and do not give up the teaching of your mother:
9That grace may be added to thy head, and a chain of gold to thy neck.
9For they will be a crown of grace for your head, and chain-ornaments about your neck.
10My son, if sinners shall entice thee, consent not to them.
10My son, if sinners would take you out of the right way, do not go with them.
11If they shall say: Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us hide snares for the innocent without cause:
11If they say, Come with us; let us make designs against the good, waiting secretly for the upright, without cause;
12Let us swallow him up alive like hell, and whole as one that goeth down into the pit.
12Let us overcome them living, like the underworld, and in their strength, as those who go down to death;
13We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoils.
13Goods of great price will be ours, our houses will be full of wealth;
14Cast in thy lot with us, let us all have one purse.
14Take your chance with us, and we will all have one money-bag:
15My son, walk not thou with them, restrain thy foot from their paths.
15My son, do not go with them; keep your feet from their ways:
16For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
16For their feet are running after evil, and they are quick to take a man's life.
17But a net is spread in vain before the eyes of them that have wings.
17Truly, to no purpose is the net stretched out before the eyes of the bird:
18And they themselves lie in wait for their own blood, and practise deceits against their own souls.
18And they are secretly waiting for their blood and making ready destruction for themselves.
19So the ways of every covetous man destroy the souls of the possessors.
19Such is the fate of everyone who goes in search of profit; it takes away the life of its owners.
20Wisdom preacheth abroad, she uttereth her voice in the streets:
20Wisdom is crying out in the street; her voice is loud in the open places;
21At the head of multitudes she crieth out, in the entrance of the gates of the city she uttereth her words, saying:
21Her words are sounding in the meeting-places, and in the doorways of the town:
22O children, how long will you love childishness, and fools covet those things which are hurtful to themselves, and the unwise hate knowledge?
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?
23Turn ye at my reproof: behold I will utter my spirit to you, and will shew you my words.
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.
24Because I called, and you refused: I stretched out my hand, and there was none that regarded.
24Because your ears were shut to my voice; no one gave attention to my out-stretched hand;
25You have despised all my counsel, and have neglected my reprehensions.
25You were not controlled by my guiding, and would have nothing to do with my sharp words:
26I also will laugh in your destruction, and will mock when that shall come to you which you feared.
26So in the day of your trouble I will be laughing; I will make sport of your fear;
27When sudden calamity shall fall on you, and destruction, as a tempest, shall be at hand: when tribulation and distress shall come upon you:
27When your fear comes on you like a storm, and your trouble like a rushing wind; when pain and sorrow come on you.
28Then shall they call upon me, and I will not hear: they shall rise in the morning, and shall not find me:
28Then I will give no answer to their cries; searching for me early, they will not see me:
29Because they have hated instruction, and received not the fear of the Lord,
29For they were haters of knowledge, and did not give their hearts to the fear of the Lord:
30Nor consented to my counsel, but despised all my reproof.
30They had no desire for my teaching, and my words of protest were as nothing to them.
31Therefore they shall eat the fruit of their own way, and shall be filled with their own devices.
31So the fruit of their way will be their food, and with the designs of their hearts they will be made full.