Proverbs 1
1The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
מִשְׁלֵי שְׁלֹמֹה בֶן־דָּוִד מֶלֶךְ יִשְׂרָאֵל׃ (1452)
See also: Proverbs 10:1, 1 Chronicles 22:9, 1 Chronicles 28:5, Proverbs 25:1, Genesis 43:14, Ecclesiastes 1:1, 1 Samuel 28:6, 1 Kings 2:12, 1 Kings 4:31-32, 2 Samuel 12:24-25, Job 32:7, Ecclesiastes 12:9, Ecclesiastes 12:10, 1 Chronicles 29:28
2To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
לָדַעַת חָכְמָה וּמוּסָר לְהָבִין אִמְרֵי בִינָה׃ (1304)
See also: Proverbs 7:4, Proverbs 8:33, Deuteronomy 4:5-6, 1 Kings 3:9-12, Proverbs 2:9, Proverbs 17:16, Luke 11:49, 2 Timothy 3:15-17, 1 Kings 12:8, Proverbs 4:5-7, Proverbs 16:16, Proverbs 8:5
3To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
לָקַחַת מוּסַר הַשְׂכֵּל צֶדֶק וּמִשְׁפָּט וּמֵישָׁרִים׃ (2434)
See also: Proverbs 2:1-9, Job 22:22, 1 Kings 3:28, Proverbs 8:10-11, John 17:8, Proverbs 22:17, Jeremiah 17:23
4To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
לָתֵת לִפְתָאיִם עָרְמָה לְנַעַר דַּעַת וּמְזִמָּה׃ (2628)
See also: Psalms 19:7, Psalms 119:9, Psalms 119:130, Proverbs 8:5, Proverbs 8:12, Proverbs 8:17, Proverbs 7:7, Proverbs 8:32, Proverbs 9:4-6, Psalms 34:11, Proverbs 1:22-23, Proverbs 2:10-11, Proverbs 3:21, Isaiah 35:8, Jeremiah 3:4, 2 Timothy 2:22, Titus 2:6, Ecclesiastes 11:9-12:1
5A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
יִשְׁמַע חָכָם וְיֹוסֶף לֶקַח וְנָבֹון תַּחְבֻּלֹות יִקְנֶה׃ (1913)
See also: Proverbs 12:1, Proverbs 9:9, Acts 17:11, 1 Corinthians 10:15, Job 34:10, Job 34:16, Proverbs 12:15, Proverbs 18:15, Psalms 119:98-100, Hosea 14:9, Daniel 12:10, 1 John 2:21, Job 34:34, Matthew 13:23, Luke 11:36, 2 Chronicles 25:16, Exodus 18:24, 1 Samuel 25:32-33, 1 Kings 10:1, Job 34:2
6To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
לְהָבִין מָשָׁל וּמְלִיצָה דִּבְרֵי חֲכָמִים וְחִידֹתָם׃ (1450)
See also: Psalms 78:2, Mark 4:11, Psalms 49:4, Acts 8:30-31, Hebrews 5:14, Mark 4:34, Ecclesiastes 12:11, Matthew 13:10-17, Matthew 13:34-35, Matthew 13:51-52, 2 Peter 3:16, Numbers 12:8, Judges 14:12, Proverbs 24:23, 2 Chronicles 9:1, Ecclesiastes 8:1, John 16:25
7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
יִרְאַת יְהוָה רֵאשִׁית דָּעַת חָכְמָה וּמוּסָר אֱוִילִים בָּזוּ׃ (2519)
See also: Job 28:28, Proverbs 31:30, Psalms 111:10-112:1, Proverbs 9:10, Ecclesiastes 12:13, Proverbs 15:33, Proverbs 18:2, Proverbs 1:22, Proverbs 1:29-30, Romans 1:28, Proverbs 15:5, John 3:18-21, Psalms 34:11, Proverbs 5:12-13, 1 Samuel 12:24, Proverbs 2:5, 2 Thessalonians 2:10, Psalms 25:12, Psalms 5:5, Psalms 14:1
8My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
שְׁמַע בְּנִי מוּסַר אָבִיךָ וְאַל־תִּטֹּשׁ תֹּורַת אִמֶּךָ׃ (2624)
See also: Deuteronomy 4:9, Ephesians 6:1, Proverbs 3:1, Exodus 20:12, Proverbs 6:20, Proverbs 19:20, Proverbs 30:17, Proverbs 4:1, Proverbs 7:1, Proverbs 23:22, Proverbs 5:1-2, Proverbs 8:33, Proverbs 31:1, Proverbs 2:1, 2 Timothy 1:5, Leviticus 19:3, Deuteronomy 21:18-21, Proverbs 1:10, Genesis 28:7, Ruth 3:6
9For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
כִּי ׀ לִוְיַת חֵן הֵם לְרֹאשֶׁךָ וַעֲנָקִים לְגַרְגְּרֹתֶיךָ׃ (2272)
See also: Proverbs 3:3, Proverbs 4:9, Daniel 5:29, Proverbs 3:22, Genesis 41:42, Proverbs 6:20-21, Ezekiel 16:11, Psalms 73:6, Song of Solomon 1:10, Isaiah 3:19, Daniel 5:7, Exodus 13:9, Song of Solomon 4:9, Daniel 5:16, 1 Timothy 2:9-10, 1 Peter 3:3-4
10My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
בְּנִי אִם־יְפַתּוּךָ חַטָּאִים אַל־תֹּבֵא׃ (1121)
See also: Psalms 119:9, Ephesians 5:11, Proverbs 4:14, Psalms 1:1, Proverbs 16:29, Exodus 23:2, Proverbs 13:20, Deuteronomy 13:8, Romans 16:18, Proverbs 7:21-23, Ephesians 5:7, James 3:6, Proverbs 1:8, Genesis 39:8, 2 Chronicles 19:2, Job 21:16, Psalms 50:18, Proverbs 12:11, Proverbs 20:19, 1 Thessalonians 2:11
11If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
אִם־יֹאמְרוּ לְכָה אִתָּנוּ נֶאֶרְבָה לְדָם נִצְפְּנָה לְנָקִי חִנָּם׃ (1705)
See also: Proverbs 13:20, Jeremiah 5:26, Micah 7:2, Exodus 1:10, Exodus 20:13, Proverbs 1:18, Proverbs 29:24, Proverbs 6:17, Proverbs 12:6, Ecclesiastes 5:13, Acts 23:15, Genesis 11:3, Genesis 37:20, Judges 9:25, Judges 9:32, Psalms 94:21, Proverbs 13:2, Proverbs 24:1, Jeremiah 18:18-20, Hosea 6:9
12Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
נִבְלָעֵם כִּשְׁאֹול חַיִּים וּתְמִימִים כְּיֹורְדֵי בֹור׃ (1621)
See also: Psalms 28:1, Psalms 124:3, Job 20:18, Psalms 56:1, Psalms 83:4, Isaiah 5:14, Romans 3:13, 2 Corinthians 2:7, Genesis 27:41, Genesis 34:23, Numbers 16:30-33, Numbers 26:10, Psalms 5:9, Psalms 35:25, Psalms 57:3, Psalms 143:7, Isaiah 49:19, Jeremiah 51:34, Lamentations 2:5, Lamentations 2:16
13We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
כָּל־הֹון יָקָר נִמְצָא נְמַלֵּא בָתֵּינוּ שָׁלָל׃ (1551)
See also: Exodus 20:15, Proverbs 8:21, 1 Timothy 6:9-10, Job 24:2-3, Luke 12:15, Proverbs 1:19, Isaiah 10:13-14, Jeremiah 22:16-17, Nahum 2:12, Haggai 2:9, Revelation 18:9-16
14Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
גֹּורָלְךָ תַּפִּיל בְּתֹוכֵנוּ כִּיס אֶחָד יִהְיֶה לְכֻלָּנוּ׃ (1532)
15My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
בְּנִי אַל־תֵּלֵךְ בְּדֶרֶךְ אִתָּם מְנַע רַגְלְךָ מִנְּתִיבָתָם׃ (2565)
See also: Psalms 1:1, Psalms 119:101, Proverbs 4:14, Exodus 23:2, Proverbs 4:27, Psalms 26:4-5, Proverbs 3:31, 2 Corinthians 6:17, Numbers 22:21, Genesis 39:10, Genesis 39:12, Genesis 49:6, Job 34:8, Proverbs 1:8, Proverbs 9:6, Proverbs 13:20, Isaiah 8:11, 1 Thessalonians 2:11, Proverbs 5:8, Jeremiah 14:10
16For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
כִּי רַגְלֵיהֶם לָרַע יָרוּצוּ וִימַהֲרוּ לִשְׁפָּךְ־דָּם׃ (1671)
See also: Romans 3:15, Proverbs 6:18, Isaiah 59:7, Proverbs 19:2, Proverbs 4:16, Proverbs 11:19, Exodus 1:22, Acts 23:15, Romans 3:5, Numbers 22:40, 2 Samuel 17:1, John 13:27, Genesis 27:41, Genesis 37:20, 1 Samuel 23:14, 1 Samuel 23:23, Esther 3:15, Psalms 26:10, Psalms 59:4, Psalms 94:21
17Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
כִּי־חִנָּם מְזֹרָה הָרָשֶׁת בְּעֵינֵי כָל־בַּעַל כָּנָף׃ (1729)
See also: 1 Timothy 6:9, Proverbs 29:5, 2 Peter 3:17, Job 35:11, Proverbs 6:6, Proverbs 7:23, Proverbs 12:12, Jeremiah 8:7, Proverbs 6:5, Isaiah 1:3, Jeremiah 5:26
18And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
וְהֵם לְדָמָם יֶאֱרֹבוּ יִצְפְּנוּ לְנַפְשֹׁתָם׃ (1520)
See also: Psalms 9:16, Esther 7:10, Proverbs 5:22-23, Proverbs 28:17, Exodus 20:13, Psalms 7:14-16, Proverbs 1:11, Proverbs 11:18, Psalms 55:23, Matthew 27:4-5, Numbers 16:38, Numbers 35:20, Esther 5:14, Job 31:31, Proverbs 9:17-18, Proverbs 21:7, Jeremiah 17:11, Jeremiah 44:7, Habakkuk 2:10, Proverbs 13:2
19So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
כֵּן אָרְחֹות כָּל־בֹּצֵעַ בָּצַע אֶת־נֶפֶשׁ בְּעָלָיו יִקָּח׃ (2126)
See also: 1 Timothy 6:10, Proverbs 15:27, 2 Peter 2:3, James 4:2, Proverbs 23:3-4, Ecclesiastes 5:13, Jeremiah 22:17-19, Micah 2:1-3, Habakkuk 2:9, James 5:1-4, 2 Kings 5:20-27, Micah 3:10-12, Acts 8:19-20, 1 Timothy 3:3, 2 Samuel 16:3, 2 Samuel 18:11-13, Job 31:39, Psalms 10:5, Proverbs 1:13, Ezekiel 22:12
20Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
חָכְמֹות בַּחוּץ תָּרֹנָּה בָּרְחֹבֹות תִּתֵּן קֹולָהּ׃ (2844)
See also: Proverbs 8:1, Proverbs 9:3, Colossians 2:3, Luke 11:49, 1 Corinthians 1:24, Jeremiah 35:14, Matthew 10:27, Matthew 13:54, 1 Corinthians 1:30, Psalms 25:8, Psalms 49:1, Matthew 13:19, John 7:37, Jeremiah 7:2, Matthew 22:9, Mark 2:13, Song of Solomon 3:2, Jeremiah 17:19, Jeremiah 19:2, Luke 8:8
21She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,
בְּרֹאשׁ הֹמִיֹּות תִּקְרָא בְּפִתְחֵי שְׁעָרִים בָּעִיר אֲמָרֶיהָ תֹאמֵר׃ (3964)
See also: Isaiah 55:1, Proverbs 8:34, Acts 5:20, Proverbs 9:3, Matthew 10:27, Matthew 13:2, Proverbs 8:33, John 18:20, Leviticus 15:12, Isaiah 45:19
22How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
עַד־מָתַי ׀ פְּתָיִם תְּאֵהֲבוּ פֶתִי וְלֵצִים לָצֹון חָמְדוּ לָהֶם וּכְסִילִים יִשְׂנְאוּ־דָעַת׃ (3460)
See also: Psalms 1:1, Proverbs 1:7, Psalms 119:130, Psalms 19:7, John 1:5, Psalms 4:2, Proverbs 4:5, Psalms 92:6, 2 Corinthians 5:20, Romans 1:28, Matthew 17:17, Proverbs 1:29, Proverbs 8:5, Psalms 62:3, Psalms 95:10, Proverbs 5:12, John 3:20, 2 Peter 3:3, Psalms 5:5, Proverbs 7:7
23Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
תָּשׁוּבוּ לְתֹוכַחְתִּי הִנֵּה אַבִּיעָה לָכֶם רוּחִי אֹודִיעָה דְבָרַי אֶתְכֶם׃ (2823)
See also: Isaiah 44:3, Joel 2:28, Luke 11:13, John 8:32, Ezekiel 36:27, Ezekiel 33:11, Acts 3:19, Ezekiel 18:27-30, Acts 2:36-38, Isaiah 32:15, Isaiah 55:6-7, Acts 11:16, Proverbs 12:1, Luke 3:16, Acts 2:17, Isaiah 55:1-3, Zechariah 12:10, Acts 26:20, Revelation 3:16-19, Proverbs 10:17
24Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
יַעַן קָרָאתִי וַתְּמָאֵנוּ נָטִיתִי יָדִי וְאֵין מַקְשִׁיב׃ (2366)
See also: Revelation 22:11, Job 33:14, Isaiah 65:2, Proverbs 29:1, Psalms 27:5, Isaiah 65:12, Zechariah 7:13, Matthew 23:37, Romans 10:21, Jeremiah 7:13, Hebrews 12:17, Isaiah 50:2, Isaiah 66:4, Proverbs 15:32, Luke 8:12, Hebrews 12:25-26, Ezekiel 8:18, Zechariah 7:11-12, Matthew 22:5-6, Luke 13:24
25But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
וַתִּפְרְעוּ כָל־עֲצָתִי וְתֹוכַחְתִּי לֹא אֲבִיתֶם׃ (2716)
See also: Proverbs 1:30, Psalms 81:11, Psalms 106:13, Luke 7:30, Psalms 107:11, 1 Samuel 8:18, Proverbs 5:12, Proverbs 13:13, Judges 10:14, 2 Chronicles 10:8, Proverbs 10:17, Proverbs 12:1, 2 Chronicles 36:16, 1 Kings 12:8, Isaiah 1:24, Ezekiel 20:13, Numbers 14:31, Proverbs 1:23, Revelation 3:18
26I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
גַּם־אֲנִי בְּאֵידְכֶם אֶשְׂחָק אֶלְעַג בְּבֹא פַחְדְּכֶם׃ (851)
See also: Psalms 2:4, Psalms 37:13, Proverbs 10:24, Proverbs 6:15, Luke 14:24, Deuteronomy 28:63, Psalms 59:8, Job 15:21, Joshua 10:2, Psalms 14:5, Proverbs 12:8, Judges 10:14
27When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
בְּבֹא [כְשַׁאֲוָה כ] (כְשֹׁואָה ׀ ק) פַּחְדְּכֶם וְאֵידְכֶם כְּסוּפָה יֶאֱתֶה בְּבֹא עֲלֵיכֶם צָרָה וְצוּקָה׃ (2286)
See also: Psalms 63:1, Proverbs 3:25-26, Proverbs 10:25, Genesis 42:21, Proverbs 6:15, Job 15:24, Job 22:10, Job 31:3, Psalms 58:9, Psalms 69:22-28, Proverbs 10:24-25, Ecclesiastes 5:17, Isaiah 17:13, Isaiah 40:24, Jeremiah 6:24, Jeremiah 23:19, Jeremiah 30:23, Hosea 5:15, Nahum 1:3, Luke 21:23-26
28Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
אָז יִקְרָאֻנְנִי וְלֹא אֶעֱנֶה יְשַׁחֲרֻנְנִי וְלֹא יִמְצָאֻנְנִי׃ (1508)
See also: John 9:31, Isaiah 1:15, Micah 3:4, Proverbs 8:17, Psalms 32:6, Jeremiah 11:11, Zechariah 7:13, James 4:3, Psalms 50:17, Proverbs 21:13, Matthew 25:10-12, Job 27:9, Jeremiah 14:12, Hosea 5:6, 1 Samuel 8:18, Job 35:12, Psalms 18:41, Ezekiel 8:18, Genesis 6:3, Judges 9:7
29For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
תַּחַת כִּי־שָׂנְאוּ דָעַת וְיִרְאַת יְהֹוָה לֹא בָחָרוּ׃ (2559)
See also: Proverbs 1:7, John 8:32, John 1:5, Psalms 119:30, John 3:20, Deuteronomy 30:19, Romans 1:28, Psalms 82:5, Proverbs 6:23, Proverbs 10:21, Job 21:14-15, Proverbs 1:22, Isaiah 28:9, Luke 8:12, 2 Chronicles 13:5, Job 33:14, Isaiah 27:11, Jeremiah 9:6, Romans 3:11, Hebrews 11:25
30They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
לֹא־אָבוּ לַעֲצָתִי נָאֲצוּ כָּל־תֹּוכַחְתִּי׃ (1681)
See also: Hosea 4:6, Psalms 81:11, Proverbs 1:25, Psalms 106:13, Psalms 107:11, Proverbs 13:13, Jeremiah 8:9, Jeremiah 36:23, Luke 14:18-20, Leviticus 26:15, 1 Kings 12:8, Job 18:7, Psalms 119:173, Proverbs 1:23, Proverbs 10:17, Proverbs 15:10, Numbers 14:31, Psalms 119:111, Revelation 3:18
31Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
וְיֹאכְלוּ מִפְּרִי דַרְכָּם וּמִמֹּעֲצֹתֵיהֶם יִשְׂבָּעוּ׃ (1756)
See also: Galatians 6:7, 1 Timothy 6:10, Proverbs 14:14, Proverbs 8:36, Jeremiah 6:19, Job 4:8, Proverbs 22:8, Isaiah 3:10-11, Jeremiah 2:19, Hosea 10:13, Isaiah 3:11, Ephesians 5:11, Genesis 27:34, Job 34:11, Proverbs 12:21, Proverbs 13:2, Jeremiah 21:14, Numbers 5:22, Proverbs 5:22, Proverbs 12:2
32For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
כִּי מְשׁוּבַת פְּתָיִם תַּהַרְגֵם וְשַׁלְוַת כְּסִילִים תְּאַבְּדֵם׃ (3315)
See also: Hebrews 3:12, Deuteronomy 8:11, Psalms 69:22, Psalms 92:7, Psalms 119:67, Proverbs 8:36, Ecclesiastes 8:12, Psalms 55:19, Ecclesiastes 5:13, Jeremiah 2:19, John 3:36, 2 Timothy 4:4, Deuteronomy 30:17, Proverbs 7:7, Isaiah 26:10, Jeremiah 12:1, Luke 6:24, Luke 16:19-25, Romans 11:9, Hebrews 10:39
33But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.
וְשֹׁמֵעַ לִי יִשְׁכָּן־בֶּטַח וְשַׁאֲנַן מִפַּחַד רָעָה׃ (1669)
See also: Psalms 25:12-13, Psalms 112:7, Isaiah 26:3, John 10:27-29, Proverbs 14:26, Proverbs 8:32-35, Luke 21:9, Psalms 25:13, Proverbs 9:11, Luke 21:19, Psalms 81:13, Isaiah 33:16, Isaiah 55:3, 1 Peter 1:5, Leviticus 25:18, Matthew 17:5, Proverbs 3:21-26, Isaiah 48:18, Leviticus 26:5, Proverbs 8:35