PROVERBS

Chapter 1

Wisdom, It Provideth Knowledge. Seek It and Avoid Evil Doers

The Value of Proverbs

• 1. THE proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
  
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    • מִשְׁלֵי שְׁלֹמֹה בֶן־דָּוִד מֶלֶךְ יִשְׂרָאֵל׃
• 2. To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
  
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    • לָדַעַת חָכְמָה וּמוּסָר לְהָבִין אִמְרֵי בִינָה׃
• 3. To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
  
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    • לָקַחַת מוּסַר הַשְׂכֵּל צֶדֶק וּמִשְׁפָּט וּמֵישָׁרִים׃
• 4. To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
  
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    • לָתֵת לִפְתָאיִם עָרְמָה לְנַעַר דַּעַת וּמְזִמָּה׃
• 5. A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
  
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    • יִשְׁמַע חָכָם וְיוֹסֶף לֶקַח וְנָבוֹן תַּחְבֻּלוֹת יִקְנֶה׃
• 6. To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
  
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    • לְהָבִין מָשָׁל וּמְלִיצָה דִּבְרֵי חֲכָמִים וְחִידֹתָם׃

Honor Your Father and Mother

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The Enticement of Evil Doers

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The Call of Wisdom

• 20. Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
  
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    • חָכְמוֹת בַּחוּץ תָּרֹנָּה בָּרְחֹבוֹת תִּתֵּן קוֹלָהּ׃
• 21. She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the opeings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,
  
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    • בְּרֹאשׁ הֹמִיּוֹת תִּקְרָא בְּפִתְחֵי שְׁעָרִים בָּעִיר אֲמָרֶיהָ תֹאמֵר׃
• 22. How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
  
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    • עַד־מָתַי פְּתָיִם תְּאֵהֲבוּ פֶתִי וְלֵצִים לָצוֹן חָמְדוּ לָהֶם וּכְסִילִים יִשְׂנְאוּ־דָעַת׃
• 23. Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
  
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    • תָּשׁוּבוּ לְתוֹכַחְתִּי הִנֵּה אַבִּיעָה לָכֶם רוּחִי אוֹדִיעָה דְבָרַי אֶתְכֶם׃

Consequences for Rejecting Wisdom

• 24. Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
  
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    • יַעַן קָרָאתִי וַתְּמָאֵנוּ נָטִיתִי יָדִי וְאֵין מַקְשִׁיב׃
• 25. But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
  
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    • וַתִּפְרְעוּ כָל־עֲצָתִי וְתוֹכַחְתִּי לֹא אֲבִיתֶם׃
• 26. I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
  
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    • גַּם־אֲנִי בְּאֵידְכֶם אֶשְׂחָק אֶלְעַג בְּבֹא פַחְדְּכֶם׃
• 27. When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
  
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    • בְּבֹא כשאוה פַּחְדְּכֶם וְאֵידְכֶם כְּסוּפָה יֶאֱתֶה בְּבֹא עֲלֵיכֶם צָרָה וְצוּקָה׃
• 28. Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
  
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    • אָז יִקְרָאֻנְנִי וְלֹא אֶעֱנֶה יְשַׁחֲרֻנְנִי וְלֹא יִמְצָאֻנְנִי׃
• 29. For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
  
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    • תַּחַת כִּי־שָׂנְאוּ דָעַת וְיִרְאַת יְהֹוָה לֹא בָחָרוּ׃
• 30. They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
  
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    • לֹא־אָבוּ לַעֲצָתִי נָאֲצוּ כָּל־תּוֹכַחְתִּי׃
• 31. Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
  
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    • וְיֹאכְלוּ מִפְּרִי דַרְכָּם וּמִמֹּעֲצֹתֵיהֶם יִשְׂבָּעוּ׃
• 32. For the turning away of simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
  
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    • כִּי מְשׁוּבַת פְּתָיִם תַּהַרְגֵם וְשַׁלְוַת כְּסִילִים תְּאַבְּדֵם׃
• 33. But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.
  
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    • וְשֹׁמֵעַ לִי יִשְׁכָּן־בֶּטַח וְשַׁאֲנַן מִפַּחַד רָעָה׃ פ