Proverbs 1-8 (Translated)
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Chapter 1
Verse | King James Version | Proposed Conservative Translation | Analysis |
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1 | The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; | The proverbs of solomon the son of David, the King of Israel; | |
2 | To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding; | To know wisdom and instruction; to see the words of understanding; | |
3 | To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity; | To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, judgment and evenness; | (evenness מישׁר-mêyshâr evenness, that is, (figuratively) prosperity or concord; also straightness, that is, (figuratively) rectitude (only in plural with singular sense; often adverbially): - agreement, aright, |
4 | To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion. | to give wisdom to the foolish, to the young man knowledge and discretion. | |
5 | A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels: | a wise man will listen and will learn and a understanding man will take wise advice: | |
6 | To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings. | To understand a proverb and the interpretation; the words of the wise and their dark sayings. | |
7 | The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction. | Fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools strongly hate wisdom and instruction. | |
8 | My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: | My son, hear the instructions of your father and don't abandon the law of your mother. | |
9 | For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck. | For they will be a ornament of grace on your head, and chains on your neck. | |
10 | My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. | My son, Don' concede if sinners allure you, | |
11 | If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: | If they say, "come with us, lets lay wait to kill, let's sneak secretly for innocent people without reason": | |
12 | Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: | "let us swallow them alive and whole like the grave as those who Go down to the pit of Hell" | |
13 | We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil: | "We shall find all precious treasures, we'll fill our houses with spoils" | |
14 | Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse: | "Gamble and bet with us, we will all have one bag: | purse (kı̂ys)a form for a cup; also a bag for money or weights: - bag, cup, purse. |
15 | My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path: | My son, Don't go that way with them; keep your foot from their path: | |
16 | For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. | Because their feet run to evil and are quick to shed blood | |
17 | Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. | surely in vain the net is spread where the bird can see it | |
18 | And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives. | and they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk secretly for their own lives. | |
19 | So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof. | its the same for everyone that is greedy of profit ; which kills the real owners of it. | |
20 | Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: | wisdom cries out; she utters her voice in the streets | "she" is a personification of wisdom (feminine) |
21 | She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying, | She cries in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she utters her words, saying | |
22 | How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? | how long will you foolish people love foolishness? how long will scorners delight in their scorning, how long will fools hate knowledge? | foolish (פּתי) also called simple or silly |
23 | Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you. | tern to my correction: look, i will pour out my spirit into you, i will make my words known to you | corection (תּוכחת תּוכחה) also called reproof, rebuking or chastening |
24 | Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; | Because i called but you refused; i have stretched out my hand, and no man gave heed | |
25 | But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: | but you refused to take my advice, and engorge my correction | correction (see verse 23) |
26 | I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; | i will also laugh at your destruction; i'll mock you when your fear comes, | |
27 | When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. | when your fear comes like desolation, and your destruction comes like a whirlwind; when stress and anguish comes upon you. | |
28 | Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: | then they will call upon me, but i'll ignore them, they will seek me, but they will not find me: | |
29 | For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD: | because they hated knowledge, and didn't choose to fear the LORD | |
30 | They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof. | they didn't take my advice, they hated my correction. | correction (see verse 23) |
31 | Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. | therefore they eat the fruit of their way, and will be filled with their own devices | |
32 | For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. | because of their turning away, the simple will kill them, the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. | |
33 | But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil. | but those who listened to me will be safe, and they wont fear evil ones |
Chapter 2
Verse | King James Version | Proposed Conservative Translation | Analysis |
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1 | My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee; | ||
2 | So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; | ||
3 | Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding; | ||
4 | If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; | ||
5 | Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God. | ||
6 | For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding. | ||
7 | He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly. | ||
8 | He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints. | ||
9 | Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path. | ||
10 | When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; | ||
11 | Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee: | ||
12 | To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things; | ||
13 | Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness; | ||
14 | Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked; | ||
15 | Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths: | ||
16 | To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words; | ||
17 | Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God. | ||
18 | For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead. | ||
19 | None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life. | ||
20 | That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous. | ||
21 | For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it. | ||
22 | But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it. |
Chapter 3
Verse | King James Version | Proposed Conservative Translation | Analysis |
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1 | My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: | ||
2 | For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee. | ||
3 | Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: | ||
4 | So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man. | ||
5 | Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. | ||
6 | In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. | ||
7 | Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil. | ||
8 | It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones. | ||
9 | Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase: | ||
10 | So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine. | ||
11 | My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction: | ||
12 | For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth. | ||
13 | Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. | ||
14 | For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. | ||
15 | She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her. | ||
16 | Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour. | ||
17 | Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. | ||
18 | She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her. | ||
19 | The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens. | ||
20 | By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew. | ||
21 | My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion: | ||
22 | So shall they be life unto thy soul, and grace to thy neck. | ||
23 | Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not stumble. | ||
24 | When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet. | ||
25 | Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh. | ||
26 | For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken. | ||
27 | Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it. | ||
28 | Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, and to morrow I will give; when thou hast it by thee. | ||
29 | Devise not evil against thy neighbour, seeing he dwelleth securely by thee. | ||
30 | Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no harm. | ||
31 | Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways. | ||
32 | For the froward is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous. | ||
33 | The curse of the LORD is in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just. | ||
34 | Surely he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly. | ||
35 | The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools. |
Chapter 4
Verse | King James Version | Proposed Conservative Translation | Analysis |
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1 | Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding. | ||
2 | For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law. | ||
3 | For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother. | ||
4 | He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live. | ||
5 | Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth. | ||
6 | Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee. | ||
7 | Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. | ||
8 | Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her. | ||
9 | She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee. | ||
10 | Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many. | ||
11 | I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths. | ||
12 | When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble. | ||
13 | Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life. | ||
14 | Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. | ||
15 | Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away. | ||
16 | For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall. | ||
17 | For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence. | ||
18 | But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. | ||
19 | The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble. | ||
20 | My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. | ||
21 | Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. | ||
22 | For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh. | ||
23 | Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. | ||
24 | Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee. | ||
25 | Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee. | ||
26 | Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established. | ||
27 | Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil. |
Chapter 5
Verse | King James Version | Proposed Conservative Translation | Analysis |
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1 | My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding: | ||
2 | That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge. | ||
3 | For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: | ||
4 | But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword. | ||
5 | Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. | ||
6 | Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them. | ||
7 | Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth. | ||
8 | Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house: | ||
9 | Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel: | ||
10 | Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger; | ||
11 | And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed, | ||
12 | And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof; | ||
13 | And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me! | ||
14 | I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly. | ||
15 | Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. | ||
16 | Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets. | ||
17 | Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee. | ||
18 | Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. | ||
19 | Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love. | ||
20 | And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger? | ||
21 | For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings. | ||
22 | His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins. | ||
23 | He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray. |
Chapter 6
Verse | King James Version | Proposed Conservative Translation | Analysis |
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1 | My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger, | ||
2 | Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth. | ||
3 | Do this now, my son, deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend. | ||
4 | Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids. | ||
5 | Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler. | ||
6 | Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: | ||
7 | Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, | ||
8 | Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. | ||
9 | How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? | ||
10 | Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: | ||
11 | So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man. | ||
12 | A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth. | ||
13 | He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers; | ||
14 | Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord. | ||
15 | Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy. | ||
16 | These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: | ||
17 | A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, | ||
18 | An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, | ||
19 | A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren. | ||
20 | My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: | ||
21 | Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck. | ||
22 | When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee. | ||
23 | For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life: | ||
24 | To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman. | ||
25 | Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids. | ||
26 | For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life. | ||
27 | Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? | ||
28 | Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned? | ||
29 | So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent. | ||
30 | Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry; | ||
31 | But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house. | ||
32 | But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul. | ||
33 | A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away. | ||
34 | For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance. | ||
35 | He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts. |
Chapter 7
Verse | King James Version | Proposed Conservative Translation | Analysis |
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1 | My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. | ||
2 | Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye. | ||
3 | Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart. | ||
4 | Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman: | ||
5 | That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words. | ||
6 | For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, | ||
7 | And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, | ||
8 | Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house, | ||
9 | In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night: | ||
10 | And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart. | ||
11 | (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: | ||
12 | Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.) | ||
13 | So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him, | ||
14 | I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows. | ||
15 | Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee. | ||
16 | I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt. | ||
17 | I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. | ||
18 | Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves. | ||
19 | For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey: | ||
20 | He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed. | ||
21 | With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him. | ||
22 | He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; | ||
23 | Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life. | ||
24 | Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth. | ||
25 | Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths. | ||
26 | For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her. | ||
27 | Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death. |
Chapter 8
Verse | King James Version | Proposed Conservative Translation | Analysis |
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1 | Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice? | ||
2 | She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths. | ||
3 | She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors. | ||
4 | Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man. | ||
5 | O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart. | ||
6 | Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things. | ||
7 | For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips. | ||
8 | All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them. | ||
9 | They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge. | ||
10 | Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold. | ||
11 | For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it. | ||
12 | I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions. | ||
13 | The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate. | ||
14 | Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength. | ||
15 | By me kings reign, and princes decree justice. | ||
16 | By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth. | ||
17 | I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me. | ||
18 | Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness. | ||
19 | My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver. | ||
20 | I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment: | ||
21 | That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures. | ||
22 | The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. | ||
23 | I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. | ||
24 | When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water. | ||
25 | Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth: | ||
26 | While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world. | ||
27 | When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth: | ||
28 | When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep: | ||
29 | When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth: | ||
30 | Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him; | ||
31 | Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men. | ||
32 | Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways. | ||
33 | Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not. | ||
34 | Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors. | ||
35 | For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD. | ||
36 | But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death. |