| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | NET Bible |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1The Proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2To learn wisdom and moral instruction, and to discern wise counsel. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3To receive moral instruction in skillful living, in righteousness, justice, and equity. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4To impart shrewdness to the morally naive, and a discerning plan to the young person. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5(Let the wise also hear and gain instruction, and let the discerning acquire guidance!) |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6To discern the meaning of a proverb and a parable, the sayings of the wise and their riddles. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Fearing the LORD is the beginning of moral knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Listen, my child, to the instruction from your father, and do not forsake the teaching from your mother. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9For they will be like an elegant garland on your head, and like pendants around your neck. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10My child, if sinners try to entice you, do not consent! |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11If they say, "Come with us! We will lie in wait to shed blood; we will ambush an innocent person capriciously. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12We will swallow them alive like Sheol, those full of vigor like those going down to the Pit. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13We will seize all kinds of precious wealth; we will fill our houses with plunder. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Join with us! We will all share equally in what we steal." |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15My child, do not go down their way, withhold yourself from their path; |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16for they are eager to inflict harm, and they hasten to shed blood. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Surely it is futile to spread a net in plain sight of any bird, |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18but these men lie in wait for their own blood, they ambush their own lives! |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Such are the ways of all who gain profit unjustly; it takes away the life of those who obtain it! |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Wisdom calls out in the street, she shouts loudly in the plazas; |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21at the head of the noisy streets she calls, in the entrances of the gates in the city she utters her words: |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22"How long will you simpletons love naivete? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge? |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23If only you will respond to my rebuke, then I will pour out my thoughts to you and I will make my words known to you. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24However, because I called but you refused to listen, because I stretched out my hand but no one paid attention, |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25because you neglected all my advice, and did not comply with my rebuke, |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26so I myself will laugh when disaster strikes you, I will mock when what you dread comes, |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27when what you dread comes like a whirlwind, and disaster strikes you like a devastating storm, when distressing trouble comes on you. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Then they will call to me, but I will not answer; they will diligently seek me, but they will not find me. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Because they hated moral knowledge, and did not choose to fear the LORD, |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30they did not comply with my advice, they spurned all my rebuke. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31Therefore they will eat from the fruit of their way, and they will be stuffed full of their own counsel. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32For the waywardness of the simpletons will kill them, and the careless ease of fools will destroy them. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33But the one who listens to me will live in security, and will be at ease from the dread of harm. |
|
    |