en_cjb - Pro 1 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ The proverbs of Shlomo the son of David, king of Isra’el,

² are for learning about wisdom and discipline; for understanding words expressing deep insight;

³ for gaining an intelligently disciplined life, doing what is right, just and fair;

⁴ for endowing with caution those who don’t think and the young person with knowledge and discretion.

⁵ Someone who is already wise will hear and learn still more; someone who already understands will gain the ability to counsel well;

⁶ he will understand proverbs, obscure expressions, the sayings and riddles of the wise.

⁷ The fear of ADONAI is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.

⁸ My son, heed the discipline of your father, and do not abandon the teaching of your mother;

⁹ they will be a garland to grace your head, a medal of honor for your neck.

¹⁰ My son, if sinners entice you, don’t go along with them.

¹¹ Suppose they say, “Come with us: we’ll ambush somebody and kill him, we’ll waylay some harmless soul, just for fun;

¹² we’ll swallow him alive, like Sh’ol, whole, like those who descend to the pit;

¹³ we’ll find everything he has of value, we’ll fill our homes with loot!

¹⁴ Throw in your lot with us; we’ll share a common purse” —

¹⁵ my son, don’t go along with them, don’t set foot on their path;

¹⁶ Their feet run to evil, they rush to shed blood.

¹⁷ For in vain is the net baited if any bird can see it;

¹⁸ rather, they are ambushing themselves to shed their own blood, waylaying themselves.

¹⁹ So are the ways of all greedy for gain — it takes the lives of those who get it.

²⁰ Wisdom calls aloud in the open air and raises her voice in the public places;

²¹ she calls out at streetcorners and speaks out at entrances to city gates:

²² “How long, you whose lives have no purpose, will you love thoughtless living? How long will scorners find pleasure in mocking? How long will fools hate knowledge?

²³ Repent when I reprove — I will pour out my spirit to you, I will make my words known to you.

²⁴ Because you refused when I called, and no one paid attention when I put out my hand,

²⁵ but instead you neglected my counsel and would not accept my reproof;

²⁶ I, in turn, will laugh at your distress, and mock when terror comes over you —

²⁷ yes, when terror overtakes you like a storm and your disaster approaches like a whirlwind, when distress and trouble assail you.

²⁸ Then they will call me, but I won’t answer; they will seek me earnestly, but they won’t find me.

²⁹ Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of ADONAI,

³⁰ they refused my counsel and despised my reproof.

³¹ So they will bear the consequences of their own way and be overfilled with their own schemes.

³² For the aimless wandering of the thoughtless will kill them, and the smug overconfidence of fools will destroy them;

³³ but those who pay attention to me will live securely, untroubled by fear of misfortune.”