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משלי
PROVERBS
- 1The proverbs of Solomon the
son of David, king of Israel, - 2To know wisdom and instruction;
- To comprehend the words of understanding;
- 3To receive the discipline of wisdom,
- Justice, and right, and equity;
- 4To give prudence to the simple,
- To the young man knowledge and discretion;
- 5That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning,
- And the man of understanding may attain unto wise counsels;
- 6To understand a proverb, and a figure;
- The words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
- 7The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge;
- But the foolish despise wisdom and discipline.
- 8Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father,
- And forsake not the teaching of thy mother;
- 9For they shall be a chaplet of grace unto thy head,
- And chains about thy neck.
- 10My son, if sinners entice thee,
- Consent thou not.
- 11If they say: 'Come with us,
- Let us lie in wait for blood,
- Let us lurk for the innocent without cause;
- 12Let us swallow them up alive as the grave,
- And whole, as those that go down into the pit;
- 13We shall find all precious substance,
- We shall fill our houses with spoil;
- 14Cast in thy lot among us;
- Let us all have one purse'—
- 15My son, walk not thou in the way with them,
- Restrain thy foot from their path;
- 16For their feet run to evil,
- And they make haste to shed blood.
- 17For in vain the net is spread
- In the eyes of any bird;
- 18And these lie in wait for their own blood,
- They lurk for their own lives.
- 19So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain;
- It taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
- 20Wisdom crieth aloud in the street,
- She uttereth her voice in the broad places;
- 21She calleth at the head of the noisy streets,
- At the entrances of the gates, in the city, she uttereth her words:
- 22'How long, ye thoughtless, will ye love thoughtlessness?
- And how long will scorners delight them in scorning,
- And fools hate knowledge?
- 23Turn you at my reproof;
- Behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you,
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