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1:1  The proverbs of Shlomo the son of David, king of Isra’el,
1:2  are for learning about wisdom and discipline; for understanding words expressing deep insight;
1:3  for gaining an intelligently disciplined life, doing what is right, just and fair;
1:4  for endowing with caution those who don’t think and the young person with knowledge and discretion.
1:5  Someone who is already wise will hear and learn still more; someone who already understands will gain the ability to counsel well;
1:6  he will understand proverbs, obscure expressions, the sayings and riddles of the wise.
1:7  The fear of Adonai is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
1:8  My son, heed the discipline of your father, and do not abandon the teaching of your mother;
1:9  they will be a garland to grace your head, a medal of honor for your neck.
1:10  My son, if sinners entice you, don’t go along with them.
1:11  Suppose they say, “Come with us: we’ll ambush somebody and kill him, we’ll waylay some harmless soul, just for fun;
1:12  we’ll swallow him alive, like Sh’ol, whole, like those who descend to the pit;
1:13  we’ll find everything he has of value, we’ll fill our homes with loot!
1:14  Throw in your lot with us; we’ll share a common purse” —
1:15  my son, don’t go along with them, don’t set foot on their path;
1:16  Their feet run to evil, they rush to shed blood.
1:17  For in vain is the net baited if any bird can see it;
1:18  rather, they are ambushing themselves to shed their own blood, waylaying themselves.
1:19  So are the ways of all greedy for gain — it takes the lives of those who get it.
1:20  Wisdom calls aloud in the open air and raises her voice in the public places;
1:21  she calls out at streetcorners and speaks out at entrances to city gates:
1:22  “How long, you whose lives have no purpose, will you love thoughtless living? How long will scorners find pleasure in mocking? How long will fools hate knowledge?
1:23  Repent when I reprove — I will pour out my spirit to you, I will make my words known to you.
1:24  Because you refused when I called, and no one paid attention when I put out my hand,
1:25  but instead you neglected my counsel and would not accept my reproof;
1:26  I, in turn, will laugh at your distress, and mock when terror comes over you —
1:27  yes, when terror overtakes you like a storm and your disaster approaches like a whirlwind, when distress and trouble assail you.
1:28  Then they will call me, but I won’t answer; they will seek me earnestly, but they won’t find me.
1:29  Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of Adonai,
1:30  they refused my counsel and despised my reproof.
1:31  So they will bear the consequences of their own way and be overfilled with their own schemes.
1:32  For the aimless wandering of the thoughtless will kill them, and the smug overconfidence of fools will destroy them;
1:33  but those who pay attention to me will live securely, untroubled by fear of misfortune.”