Proverbs

The book of Proverbs is from the Old Testament, within the Wisdom genre (Young's Literal Translation).

Version

Young's Literal Translation

Testament

Old Testament

Genre

Wisdom

# Chapters

31

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Chapters

Proverbs Chapter 1
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Proverbs Chapter 2
Proverbs Chapter 3
Proverbs Chapter 4
Proverbs Chapter 5
Proverbs Chapter 6
Proverbs Chapter 7
Proverbs Chapter 8
Proverbs Chapter 9
Proverbs Chapter 10
Proverbs Chapter 11
Proverbs Chapter 12
Proverbs Chapter 13
Proverbs Chapter 14
Proverbs Chapter 15
Proverbs Chapter 16
Proverbs Chapter 17
Proverbs Chapter 18
Proverbs Chapter 19
Proverbs Chapter 20
Proverbs Chapter 21
Proverbs Chapter 22
Proverbs Chapter 23
Proverbs Chapter 24
Proverbs Chapter 25
Proverbs Chapter 26
Proverbs Chapter 27
Proverbs Chapter 28
Proverbs Chapter 29
Proverbs Chapter 30
Proverbs Chapter 31

Proverbs - Chapter 1

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