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Proverbs

Introduction

This collection of Proverbs, is one way of teaching so that the people of God there is/are follow if how of living righteous/honest/sensible. Most here, that teaching concerning the living of person. The one beautiful it’s written here the: “The fear Master is reason of wisdom” (1:7; 9:10). The sayings, impeg-like if what the good egkaangey we/our if is we/our follow the wisdom and not that stupidity. Because the path of sinners, night still du of gloom (4:19), and the path of righteous/honest/sensible, like of sikan still egkasi-si kaliwaswasan egkapahan-ganaran shine until egsile en indeed the day (v18).

The proverbs are a collection of useful sayings that help to impart godly wisdom to the reader.

Main components of this collection

Praising wisdom 1:1-9:18

Solomon’s sayings 10:1-29:27

Agur’s speeches 30:1-33

Various other proverbs 31:1-31

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1:1The purpose of proverbs

1These are the proverbs collected by King Solomon of Yisrael (King David’s son):

2These will help you to know wisdom and instruction,

and to comprehend sayings that give understanding.

3Also to learn insight

and to understand what’s right and leads to justice and integrity.

4They give good advice to those who are naive—

teaching knowledge and discretion to young people.

5Let wise people also listen to these sayings to keep learning more,

and discerning people can acquire guidance

6understanding proverbs and parables—

the words of wise people plus their challenges.

1:7The warning to young people

7Deciding to obey Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge.

Fools despise wisdom and being told what they should do.[ref]

8My child, listen to your father’s instructions.

Don’t reject what your mother has told you to do,

9because their teaching is like a graceful garland to wear on your head,

or like beautiful necklaces to wear around your neck.

10My child, if evil people tempt you to join them, don’t agree to it. 11If they say,

“Come with us. We’ll find someone to kill

we’ll hide and ambush an innocent person just for fun.

12Let’s swallow innocent people just like the grave does,

and healthy people just like those going down to the pit.

13We’ll find lots of valuable loot.

We’ll fill our houses with what we take.

14You need to come and join us—

we share everything equally.”

15My child, don’t follow their ways.

Keep your foot away from their path

16because their feet run towards evil,

and they rush to pour out blood.

17Surely it would be a waste of time

to spread out a net while the bird is watching,

18but they lie in wait for their own blood

they ambush their own lives.

19That’s what happens to anyone who gains wealth illegally

it takes that person’s life.

1:20Accepting or rejecting wisdom

20Wisdom calls out loudly on the street

she makes her voice known in the plazas.[ref]

21She calls out from above the busy streets.

She tells her sayings at the meeting place at the city gates.

22How much longer will naive people love their naivety,

and mockers enjoy their mockery,

and stupid people despise knowledge?

23Change your ways when I correct you.

Listen, I’ll pour my spirit out on you all.

Let me declare my messages to you all

24because I’ve called and you’ve all refused to listen.

I held out my hand but no one paid any attention

25and you all ignored all my advice

and took no notice when I corrected you.

26So I’ll laugh when calamity hits you all

and I’ll ridicule you when you’re all terrified

27when panic strikes you all like a storm

and calamity comes like a whirlwind

and when trouble and anguish reach you all.

28Then they’ll call out to me for help but I won’t answer.

They’ll search for me but won’t be able to find me

29because they hated wisdom

and didn’t choose to respect and obey Yahweh.

30They didn’t listen to my advice.

They didn’t want to hear whenever I corrected them,

31so they’ll eat the fruit of their own chosen path

and they’ll be filled with their own schemes.

32Naive people will get killed as a result of their own turning away,

and the fools’ own complacency will destroy them.

33However, those who listen to me will have secure lives

and be able to relax without worrying about troubles coming.

2:1The peace/prosperity from wisdom

2My child, if you accept my sayings

and internalise my commands,

2so you’ll be attentive to wisdom

and your mind will look for understanding,

3if you’ll call out for insight,

raising your voice to ask for understanding,

4if you go after it as if it’s silver

and search for it as if it was hidden treasure,

5then you’ll understand how to respect and obey Yahweh

and you’ll learn more about God.

6That’s because Yahweh gives wisdom

knowledge and understanding come from his mouth

7and he gives true wisdom to godly people

a protective shield for those walking with integrity.

8to guard the paths of justice,

and he will preserve the way of those who are faithful to him.

9Then you’ll understand righteousness and justice and integrity—every good path to walk,

10because wisdom will enter into your mind

and knowledge will give you pleasure.

11Discretion will watch over you.

Understanding will guard you

12to rescue you off the path of wicked people—

from people who speak perversely

13the ones who abandon the paths of godliness

to walk in the ways of darkness,

14the ones who are glad to do evil.

They rejoice in perverse things of evil,

15whose paths are crooked

and going astray in their tracks.

16Being discreet and insightful will rescue you from a strange woman—

from a foreign woman who makes her sayings smooth,

17who’s left her husband from her younger days,

and has forgotton her promise to her god.

18Her house sinks down to death,

and her paths to the departed spirits.

19No one who goes into her place will return,

and they won’t find the paths that lead to life.

20So follow the ways of good people,

and stay on the path of those who want to do what’s right,

21because it’s people who do what is right who’ll live in this land,

and those who are blameless will remain in it.

22However, the wicked people will be taken off the land,

and those who are treacherous will be torn away from it.

3:1Advice to the young

3My son, don’t forget my instructions,

and keep my commands in your thoughts,

2because they’ll give you a longer lifetime

and add peace to your life.

3Don’t let loyal commitment and faithfulness leave you:

tie them around your neck,

and inscribe them into your mind.

4Then you’ll find favour and good insight

in the eyes of God and man.[ref]

5Trust in Yahweh with everything in you,

^and don’t rely on your own logic.

6Acknowledge Yahweh’s involvement in everything you do,

and he will show you the best course to follow.

7Don’t pride yourself on your own wisdom,[ref]

^but ratherobey Yahweh and turn away from evil.

8It will be healing for your stomach,

and refreshment for your bones.

9Honour Yahweh from your wealth

and from the first of everything you harvest,

10then your barns will be completely filled,

and your vats will overflow with new wine.

11My son, don’t reject correction from Yahweh,

and don’t resent his rebuke,[ref]

12because Yahweh disciplines those he loves,[ref]

just like a father does to his child that he appreciates.

13The person who discovers wisdom is blessed,

as is the one who obtains understanding,

14because it’s better than a good income.

Being wise is of more value than gold.

15Wisdom is more valuable than jewelry.

There’s nothing else you could want that’s worth as much as being wise.

16On one hand, wisdom leads to a longer life.

On the other hand, being wise will enable riches and honour.

17The ways of wisdom are pleasant,

and all its ways are peaceful.

18Wisdom is a tree of life for those who embrace it.

People who are consistently wise are blessed.

19Yahweh founded the world using wisdom.

He established the atmosphere and sky by understanding.

20As a result of his knowledge, the ocean depths broke open,

and the clouds dripped dew.


21My son, don’t let wisdom, knowledge, or understanding escape from your sight.

Safeguard sound wisdom and discretion

22and they’ll liven your mind,

and then people will notice it about you.

23Then you’ll walk in confidence

without tripping or stumbling.

24When you go to bed, your mind won’t be filled with fear.

You’ll lie down and your sleep will be relaxing.

25Don’t worry about something terrible suddenly happening to you,

or about when you see wicked people facing ruin,

26because your confidence will be in Yahweh,

and he will protect you on your journey.


27Don’t hold back when you’re able to do good to someone

when you have the ability and opportunity to act.

28Don’t tell your neighbour, “Go home now, but come back tomorrow and I’ll give it to you then,”

when you had it there the whole time.

29Don’t plot how to take advantage of your neighbour,

when he’s living beside you and trusting you.

30Don’t quarrel with others for no reason—

if they haven’t done anything wrong to you.

31Don’t envy violent people,

and don’t imitate how they behave,

32because Yahweh detests crooked people

^but is friendly towards those who are godly.

33Yahweh’s curse is on the household of wicked people,

^but he blesses the home of those who do what’s right.

34He mocks those who mock others,[ref]

but he shows favour towards those who are humble.

35Wise people will inherit honour,

but fools will receive shame.

4:1The teaching of children

4My children, listen to your father’s teachings.

Pay attention so you’ll learn well,

2because I’ll give you good teaching.

Don’t abandon my instructions.

3When I was a boy in my father’s house,

and I was my mother’s tender son,

4then he taught me and told me,

Remember what I have told you.

Follow my instructions and live.

5Acquire wisdom and understanding.

Always remember what I’ve told you and keep doing it.

6Don’t abandon wisdom and it’ll preserve you.

Love it, and it will guard you.

7Wisdom is the priority—get hold of it,

and more than anything, acquire understanding.

8Esteem wisdom and it will lift you up.

Wisdom will honour you when you embrace it.

9Wisdom will place a wreath of grace on your head.

It’ll present you with a crown of beauty.


10My child, listen to my words and accept them,

and that’ll increase the years of your life.

11I taught you how to act wisely,

and I directed you towards the right paths.

12When you walk, your steps won’t be hampered,

and if you run, you won’t stumble.

13Take hold of my discipline—don’t let it go.

Guard it, because it’s your lifeline.

14Don’t imitate what wicked people do,

and don’t go the same way as evil people.

15Avoid that pathdon’t even walk across it.

Keep right away from it and go somewhere else,

16because they can’t nap unless they’ve done some harm,

and they’ll be robbed of sleep if they haven’t caused trouble.

17Those evil people eat the bread of wickedness,

and drink the wine of violence.

18In contrast, the path of those who do what is right, is like a bright light,

that keeps getting brighter until the brightest time of day.

19The path of wicked people is like the deep darkness,

so they don’t even know what they’re stumbling over.


20My child, pay attention to what I’m saying,

and let my words sink in.

21Don’t let them out of your sight,

and keep them in the centre of your thoughts,

22because they’re life to those who find them,

and healing to their entire bodies.

23Guard your mind and thoughts more than anything else,

because the way you live all your life, bubbles out from your values.

24Remove perverse talk from your mouth,

and keep devious words away from your lips.

25Keep your eyes looking towards the front,

and let your gaze be straight ahead.

26Make the path level for your footsteps,

and let everything you do be straight-forward.

27Don’t veer to the left or to the right

keep your feet away from evil paths.

5:1The warning concerning adultery

5My child, pay attention to my wise words,

and listen carefully to what I’ve learnt

2so you won’t lose your discretion,

and so your lips might guard knowledge.

3Although the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey,

and her speech is smoother than oil,

4in the end, she’s as bitter as wormwood,

and sharper than a double-sided sword.

5Her feet are heading down towards death,

and her steps will take her to her grave.

6She doesn’t consider the path of life.

Her paths wander so she doesn’t know where she’ll end up.

7So now my children, listen to me,

and don’t deviate from my advice.

8Stay far away from her,

and don’t go near the entrance to her house,

9in case you end up giving your youthful strength to others,

and your best years to a cruel person.

10Then strangers might make use of your strength (as a slave)

and you end up working in a foreigner’s house.

11Then you’ll groan when you are about to die

when your flesh and your body are worn out

12and you recall, “How I hated discipline,

and didn’t like being told what not to do.

13I didn’t listen to those who were teaching me,

and I didn’t take any notice of those who were instructing me.

14I was so close to utter calamity,

and everyone would have noticed me.


15Drink water from your own supply[fn]

and flowing water from your own well.

16Should your springs overflow out onto the streets,

with streams of water in the plaza?

17Let them be for you alone,

and not for any strangers who are with you.

18May your fountain be blessed,

and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth

19a loving doe, yes, a graceful deer.

Let her breasts satisfy you always.

Constantly be overwhelmed by her love.

20My son, why would you stagger along with a strange woman,

or embrace the bosom of a foreign woman

21because everything a person does is in front of Yahweh’s eyes,

and he observes all of your decisions?

22Wicked people get trapped by their own disobedience,

and they get tangled in their ropes of rebellion.

23They’ll die from a lack of discipline,

and their own stupidity will lead them astray.

6:1The other still warning

6My child, if you offer something as a guarantee for your neigbour’s loan,

or you’ve shaken hands on a deal with a stranger,

2then you’ve become trapped by your own lips—

you’ve been caught by the words out of your own mouth.

3In that case, my child, go and rescue yourself:

Since you’ve fallen into your neighbour’s control,

go and humbly appeal to your neighbour to release you from that pledge.

4Don’t say that you’ll just sleep on it.

Don’t think that you’ll just have a nap first.

5Save yourself immediately like a deer when it’s snagged,

or a bird fleeing from a trapper.


6You lazy person, go and watch an ant.

Think about its behaviour, and be wise.

7It doesn’t even have a commander,

or overseer or ruler.

8It prepares its food in the summer.

It stores up its supplies in the harvest season.

9How much longer will you lie there, lazy person?

When will you get up from your sleep?

10A little sleep, a quick nap,

a little folding of your arms to rest,

11and poverty will sneak in like a robber,

and need will threaten like an armed man.


12The wicked and worthless man

walks around with a crooked mouth,

13winking with his eyes,

shuffling his feet along,

and pointing with his fingers.

14People like that think perversely

always devising evil plans

and spreading dissension.

15Because of that, disaster will come suddenly

they’ll be instantly broken beyond healing.

16There are six things that Yahweh hates,

actually seven that he finds detestable.

17 arrogant eyes,

a lying tongue,

hands that shed innocent blood,

18 a mind that devises wicked plans,

feet that rush off to do something evil,

19 a dishonest witness that breathes out lies, and

a person that stirs up conflict within the family.

20My child, follow your father’s commands,

and don’t abandon what your mother taught you.

21Lock them into your mind.

Tie them around your neck.

22When you walk around, what you learnt will guide you.

When you lie down, it will preserve you.

When you wake up, it’ll speak to your mind,

23because rules are like a lamp and teaching like a light.

Rebuke and discipline are the pathway to life

24by keeping your from the evil woman—

from the smooth tongue of a foreign woman.

25Don’t lust in your mind for her beauty,

and don’t let her capture you with her eyelashes,

26because the price of a prostitute might be as cheap as a loaf of bread,

but another man’s wife might cost you your precious life.

27Can anyone carry fire against their chest,

without their clothes catching fire.

28If a person walks on coals,

won’t they get their feet burnt?

29It’s like that for anyone sleeping with his neighbour’s wife,

No one will go unpunished for doing that.

30They might not despite a thief

if they’re stealing to satisfy their hunger,

31yet even the thief has to pay back seven times as much if they’re caught

they might lose everything in their house.

32Anyone who commits adultery lacks judgement—

they end up destroying their own life.

33They’ll discover pain and dishonour,

and their shame will never be wiped away,

34because jealousy arouses rage in an offended person

who won’t show any compassion when it’s time to avenge.

35You won’t just be able to pay them off,

even if you try to increase the amount.

7:1The woman egpanpanlibug

7My child, obey what I’ve told you,

and store my instructions securely inside you.

2Follow my instructions and live,

and keep my teaching as the focus of your eyes.

3Tie them onto your fingers.

Write them onto your mind.

4Tell wisdom that she’s your sister,

and call understanding a close relative,

5so they’ll keep you from the street woman—

from the ungodly woman whose words sound so smooth.

6Once from the window of my house,

I looked down through the lattice slits,

7and I saw a simple lad

a youth lacking much judgement.

8He was passing through her street near the corner,

then he strode along the path to her house.

9In the twilight as evening began—

halfway towards night and darkness.

10Then look, a woman greets him,

dressed like a prostitute and skilled at seduction.

11She’s boisterous and defiant,

and her feet don’t know how to stay home.

12She’s often on the street or in the plazas,

and she lies in wait at every corner.

13Then she grabbed him and kissed him.

She looks serious and tells him,

14“I have meat at home from my sacrifice earlier

today I’ve done my religious duties.

15That’s why I came out to meet you—

to look all around until I found you.

16I’ve put nice covers on my couch

coloured linen fabric from Egypt.

17I’ve perfumed my bed

with fragrant myrrh and aloes and cinnamon.

18Come and let’s enjoy making love until morning.

We can delight ourselves in our love

19because the man of the house is away—

he’s gone away on a long journey.

20He took a bag of money with him.

He won’t be back home until the middle of the month.”

21She persuades him with her seductive talk.

She compels him with her smooth lips.

22He suddenly started following her,

like a cow going to be slaughtered

like a fool with a noose around his neck,

23until an arrow pierces his stomach,

like a bird rushing into a trap,

not knowing that it will cost him his life.


24So listen to me now my children,

and pay attention to what I’m telling you.

25Do let your desires drive you in her direction.

Don’t wander onto her pathways

26because she’s caused many to be pierced and fall—

it would be difficult to count them all.

27Her house is the pathway to the grave—

descending downwards to deathly rooms.

8:1Praising wisdom

8Doesn’t wisdom call out?[ref]

Doesn’t understanding raise her voice?

2On the high places by the road,

she stations herself between the paths.

3By the gates at the main entrance to the city,

she calls out loudly into the doorways.

4“To you, people, I call—

my voice is calling all humankind.

5You naive people must learn to be prudent,

and you foolish people must learn to be discerning.

6Listen because I’ll speak uplifting things,

and open my lips about what is right,

7because my mouth will tell the truth,

and my lips detest wickedness.

8All the words in my mouth are honest

there’s nothing twisted or crooked among them.

9All of them are straightforward to anyone who understands,

and right to those looking for knowledge.

10Choose my instruction over silver,

and knowledge rather than shiny gold,

11because wisdom is better than jewels,

and there’s nothing more desirable than her.

12I, wisdom, live together with good judgement,

and I’m good at finding knowledge and discretion.

13Those who strive to obey Yahweh, hate evil,

I, wisdom, hate pride and arrogance,

evil activities, and perverse talk.

14Good advice and sound wisdom are mine.

I have understanding and strength.

15I enable kings to reign well,

and rulers to administer justice.

16By me, princes and nobles rule—

judging with impartiality.

17I love those who love me,

and those who search for me will find me.

18Riches and honour accompany me—

enduring wealth and fairness.

19My fruit is better than purest gold,

and my produce is better than choice silver.

20I walk along the road of doing what’s right,

among the pathways that lead to justice,

21so those who love me can inherit wealth,

as I fill their storerooms.


22Yahweh created me among his first actions

at the beginning of his works long ago.[ref]

23I was established from eternity—

before the beginnings of the world.

24I was revealed before the deep oceans existed,

when there weren’t yet any springs gushing water.

25Before the mountains were set into place,

and before the hills were seen, I was revealed.

26yes, even before he made the earth and fields,

or the first dust on the ground.

27I was there:

30I was beside him as a skilled craftsman

He enjoyed my company every day,

playing in his presence all the time.

31I was enjoying playing in his world,

and enjoying humankind’s descendants.


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22:17The three pulu sayings

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5:15 Many commentators believe that the next several lines are alluding to the marital relationship between a man and his wife.


1:7: Yob 28:28; Psa 111:10; Prv 9:10.

1:20-21: Prv 8:1-3.

3:4: Luk 2:52.

3:7: Rom 12:16.

3:11: Yob 5:17.

3:12: Rev 3:19.

3:34: Jam 4:6; 1Pe 5:5.

8:1-3: Prv 1:20-21.

8:22: Rev 3:14.

10:12: Jam 5:20; 1Pe 4:8.

25:6-7: Luk 14:8-10.

26:11: 2Pe 2:22.

27:1: Jam 4:13-16.