1 Proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel: YLT — Proverbs 1:1
2 For knowing wisdom and instruction, For understanding sayings of intelligence, YLT — Proverbs 1:2
3 For receiving the instruction of wisdom, Righteousness, judgment, and uprightness, YLT — Proverbs 1:3
4 For giving to simple ones — prudence, To a youth — knowledge and discretion. YLT — Proverbs 1:4
5 (The wise doth hear and increaseth learning, And the intelligent doth obtain counsels.) YLT — Proverbs 1:5
6 For understanding a proverb and its sweetness, Words of the wise and their acute sayings. YLT — Proverbs 1:6
7 Fear of Jehovah [is] a beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and instruction fools have despised! YLT — Proverbs 1:7
8 Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother, YLT — Proverbs 1:8
9 For a graceful wreath [are] they to thy head, And chains to thy neck. YLT — Proverbs 1:9
10 My son, if sinners entice thee be not willing. YLT — Proverbs 1:10
11 If they say, ‘Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause, YLT — Proverbs 1:11
12 We swallow them as Sheol — alive, And whole — as those going down [to] the pit, YLT — Proverbs 1:12
13 Every precious substance we find, We fill our houses [with] spoil, YLT — Proverbs 1:13
14 Thy lot thou dost cast among us, One purse is — to all of us.’ YLT — Proverbs 1:14
15 My son! go not in the way with them, Withhold thy foot from their path, YLT — Proverbs 1:15
16 For their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed blood. YLT — Proverbs 1:16
17 Surely in vain is the net spread out before the eyes of any bird. YLT — Proverbs 1:17
18 And they for their own blood lay wait, They watch secretly for their own lives. YLT — Proverbs 1:18
19 So [are] the paths of every gainer of dishonest gain, The life of its owners it taketh. YLT — Proverbs 1:19
20 Wisdom in an out-place crieth aloud, In broad places she giveth forth her voice, YLT — Proverbs 1:20
21 At the head of the multitudes she calleth, In the openings of the gates, In the city her sayings she saith: YLT — Proverbs 1:21
22 ’Till when, ye simple, do ye love simplicity? And have scorners their scorning desired? And do fools hate knowledge? YLT — Proverbs 1:22
23 Turn back at my reproof, lo, I pour forth to you my spirit, I make known my words with you. YLT — Proverbs 1:23
24 Because I have called, and ye refuse, I stretched out my hand, and none is attending, YLT — Proverbs 1:24
25 And ye slight all my counsel, And my reproof ye have not desired. YLT — Proverbs 1:25
26 I also in your calamity do laugh, I deride when your fear cometh, YLT — Proverbs 1:26
27 When your fear cometh as destruction, And your calamity as a hurricane doth come, When on you come adversity and distress. YLT — Proverbs 1:27
28 Then they call me, and I do not answer, They seek me earnestly, and find me not. YLT — Proverbs 1:28
29 Because that they have hated knowledge, And the fear of Jehovah have not chosen. YLT — Proverbs 1:29
30 They have not consented to my counsel, They have despised all my reproof, YLT — Proverbs 1:30
31 And they eat of the fruit of their way, And from their own counsels they are filled. YLT — Proverbs 1:31
32 For the turning of the simple slayeth them, And the security of the foolish destroyeth them. YLT — Proverbs 1:32
33 And whoso is hearkening to me dwelleth confidently, And [is] quiet from fear of evil!’ YLT — Proverbs 1:33