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| The proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel |
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| for attaining wisdom and discipline; for understanding words of insight; |
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| for acquiring a disciplined and prudent life, doing what is right and just and fair; |
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| for giving prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young-- |
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| let the wise listen and add to their learning, and let the discerning get guidance-- |
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| for understanding proverbs and parables, the sayings and riddles of the wise. |
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| The fear of the lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline |
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| Listen, my son, to your father's instruction and do not forsake your mother's teaching. |
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| They will be a garland to grace your head and a chain to adorn your neck |
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| My son, if sinners entice you, do not give in to them. |
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| If they say, "Come along with us; let's lie in wait for someone's blood, let's waylay some harmless soul; |
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| let's swallow them alive, like the grave, and whole, like those who go down to the pit; |
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| we will get all sorts of valuable things and fill our houses with plunder; |
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| throw in your lot with us, and we will share a common purse"- |
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| my son, do not go along with them, do not set foot on their paths; |
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| for their feet rush into sin, they are swift to shed blood. |
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| How useless to spread a net in full view of all the birds! |
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| These men lie in wait for their own blood; they waylay only themselves! |
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| Such is the end of all who go after ill- gotten gain; it takes away the lives of those who get it. |
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| Wisdom calls aloud in the street, she raises her voice in the public squares; |
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| at the head of the noisy streets she cries out, in the gateways of the city she makes her speech: |
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| "How long will you simple ones love your simple ways? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge? |
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| If you had responded to my rebuke, I would have poured out my heart to you and made my thoughts known to you. |
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| But since you rejected me when I called and no one gave heed when I stretched out my hand, |
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| since you ignored all my advice and would not accept my rebuke, |
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| I in turn will laugh at your disaster; I will mock when calamity overtakes you- |
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| when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when disaster sweeps over you like a whirlwind, when distress and trouble overwhelm you. |
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| "Then they will call to me but I will not answer; they will look for me but will not find me. |
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| Since they hated knowledge and did not choose to fear the Lord , |
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| since they would not accept my advice and spurned my rebuke, |
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| they will eat the fruit of their ways and be filled with the fruit of their schemes. |
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| For the waywardness of the simple will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them; |
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| but whoever listens to me will live in safety and be at ease, without fear of harm." |
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