Pro Proverbs, chapter Proverbs of Solomon, chapter 1

Proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel: For knowing wisdom and instruction, || For understanding sayings of intelligence, For receiving the instruction of wisdom, || Righteousness, judgment, and uprightness, For giving to simple ones—prudence, || To a youth—knowledge and discretion. (The wise hear and increase learning, || And the intelligent obtain counsels.) For understanding a proverb and its sweetness, || Words of the wise and their acute sayings. Fear of YHWH [is the] beginning of knowledge, || Fools have despised wisdom and instruction! Hear, my son, the instruction of your father, || And do not leave the law of your mother, For they [are] a graceful wreath to your head, || And chains to your neck. My son, if sinners entice you, do not be willing. If they say, “Come with us, we lay wait for blood, || We watch secretly for the innocent without cause, We swallow them as Sheol—alive, || And whole—as those going down [to] the pit, We find every precious substance, || We fill our houses [with] spoil, You cast your lot among us, || One purse is—to all of us.” My son! Do not go in the way with them, || Withhold your foot from their path, For their feet run to evil, || And they hurry to shed blood. Surely in vain is the net spread out before the eyes of any bird. And they lay wait for their own blood, || They watch secretly for their own lives. So [are] the paths of every gainer of dishonest gain, || It takes the life of its owners. Wisdom cries aloud in an out-place, || She gives forth her voice in broad places, She calls at the head of the multitudes, || In the openings of the gates, || In the city she says her sayings: “Until when, yöu simple, do yöu love simplicity? And have scorners desired their scorning? And do fools hate knowledge? Turn back at my reproof, behold, || I pour forth my spirit to yöu, || I make known my words with yöu. Because I have called, and yöu refuse, || I stretched out my hand, and none is attending, And yöu slight all my counsel, || And yöu have not desired my reproof. I also laugh in yöur calamity, || I deride when yöur fear comes, When yöur fear comes as destruction, || And yöur calamity comes as a windstorm, || When adversity and distress come on yöu. Then they call me, and I do not answer, || They seek me earnestly, and do not find me. Because that they have hated knowledge, || And have not chosen the fear of YHWH. They have not consented to my counsel, || They have despised all my reproof, And they eat of the fruit of their way, || And they are filled from their own counsels. For the turning of the simple slays them, || And the security of the foolish destroys them. And whoever is listening to me dwells confidently, || And [is] quiet from fear of evil!”