Proverbs 1

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1 Proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel,
2 to know wisdom and instruction, to understand sayings of reason;
3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, judgment, and equity;
4 Just give prudence, the youth - knowledge and discretion;
5 listen to the wise - and will increase learning, and a reasonable find wise counsel;
6 To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise and their riddles.

7 The beginning of wisdom - the fear of the Lord; fools despise wisdom and instruction.
8 Listen, my son, your father's instruction and do not forsake the law of your mother,
9 because it is - a beautiful wreath for your head and adornment for your neck.

10 My son! if sinners entice thee, consent thou not
eleven If they say, `Come with us, we'll do an ambush to kill, podsterezhem innocent without cause;
12 We swallow them up alive as the grave, and - as much as down into the pit;
13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil;
14 in thy lot with us throwing one purse for all of us', -
15 my son! Do not go in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path,
16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
17 In the sight of any bird in vain the net is spread
18 and make an ambush for their own blood, and lie in wait for their souls.
19 Such are the ways of every one who covets another's good: it takes away the life of the owners thereof.

20 Wisdom intones in the street, she raises her voice in the squares,
21 in the chief place of preaching, said his speech at the entrances to the city gates:
22 `How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? [How long] will delight in violent riot? Until fools hate knowledge?
23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit on you, tell you my words.
24 I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
25 and you have rejected all my counsel, and would none of my reproof.
26 For I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind for you; when you suffer distress and anguish.
28 Then shall they call upon me, and I will not answer; they shall seek me, and find me.
29 For that they hated knowledge and did not choose [for yourself] the fear of the Lord,
thirty not of my counsel: they despised all my reproof;
31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
32 Because the simple shall slay them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them,
33 but whoever listens to me will live safely and peacefully, without fear of evil. "

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