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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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1:1 The purpose of proverbs

Advice to the reader; The Value of Proverbs; The Purpose of Proverbs; Prologue: Purpose and Theme

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

Prologue

2 These will help you to know wisdom and instruction,

and to comprehend sayings that give understanding.

3 Also to learn insight

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

4 They give good advice to those who are naive—

teaching knowledge and discretion to young people.

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

and discerning >people can acquire guidance

6 understanding proverbs and parables—

the words of wise >people plus their challenges.

1:7 The warning to young people

Advice to the Young

7 ≈Deciding to obey Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge.

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

Warnings against Evil Companions; Exhortations to Embrace Wisdom; A Father’s Exhortation: Acquire Wisdom

Warning Against Enticement

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

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

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

≈or like beautiful necklaces to wear around your neck.

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

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

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

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

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

13 We’ll find lots of valuable loot.

≈We’ll fill our houses with what we take.

14 You need to come and join us—

we share everything equally.”

15 My child, don’t ≈follow their ways.

≈Keep your foot away from their path

16 because their feet run towards evil,

and they rush to pour out blood.

17 Surely it would be ≈a waste of time

to spread out a net ≈while the bird is watching,

18 ≈but they lie in wait for their own blood

they ambush their own lives.

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

it takes that person’s life.

1:20 Accepting or rejecting wisdom

Wisdom Shouts in the Streets; The Call of Wisdom; Wisdom Calls

Warning Against Rejecting Wisdom

20 Wisdom calls out loudly on the street

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

21 She calls out from above the ≈busy streets.

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

22 How much longer will naive people love their naivety,

≈and mockers enjoy their mockery,

≈and stupid people despise knowledge?

23 ≈Change your ways when I correct you.

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

Let me declare my messages to you all

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

≈I held out my hand ≈but no one paid any attention

25 and you all ignored all my advice

and ≈took no notice when I corrected you.

26 ≈So I’ll laugh when calamity hits you all

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

27 when panic strikes you all like a storm

and calamity comes like a whirlwind

and when trouble and anguish reach you all.

28 Then 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

29 because they hated wisdom

≈and didn’t choose to ≈respect and obey Yahweh.

30 They didn’t ≈listen to my advice.

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

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

≈and they’ll be filled with their own schemes.

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

and the fools’ own complacency will destroy them.

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

and be able to relax without worrying about troubles coming.

2:1 The peace/prosperity from wisdom

The Value of Wisdom; The Benefits of Wisdom; The Rewards of Wisdom

Moral Benefits of Wisdom

2 My child, if you accept my sayings

≈and ≈internalise my commands,

2 so you’ll be attentive to wisdom

and your mind will look for understanding,

3 if you’ll call out for insight,

≈raising your voice to ask for understanding,

4 if you go after it as if it’s silver

≈and search for it as if it was hidden treasure,

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

≈and you’ll ≈learn more about God.

6 That’s because Yahweh gives wisdom

knowledge and understanding come from his mouth

7 and he gives true wisdom to godly >people

a protective shield for those walking with integrity.

8 to guard the paths of justice,

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

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

10 because wisdom will enter into your mind

≈and knowledge will ≈give you pleasure.

11 Discretion will watch over you.

≈Understanding will guard you

12 to rescue you off the path of wicked people—

from #people who speak perversely

13 the ones who abandon the paths of ≈godliness

to walk in the ways of darkness,

14 the ones who are glad to do evil.

≈They rejoice in perverse things of evil,

15 whose paths are crooked

and going astray in their tracks.

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

≈from a foreign woman who makes her sayings smooth,

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

≈and has forgotton ?≈her promise to her god.

18 Her house sinks down to death,

and her paths to the departed spirits.

19 No one who goes into her ?place will return,

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

20 So follow the ways of good people,

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

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

≈and those who are blameless will remain in it.

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

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

3:1 Advice to the young

Advice to the Young; Trusting in the Lord; Admonition to Trust and Honour God

Further Benefits of Wisdom

3 My son, don’t forget my instructions,

and keep my commands in your ≈thoughts,

2 →because they’ll give you a longer lifetime

≈and add peace to your life.

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

tie them around your neck,

and ≈inscribe them into your mind.

4 Then you’ll find favour and good insight

in the eyes of God and man.[ref]

5 Trust in Yahweh with ≈everything in you,

^and don’t ≈rely on your own logic.

6 Acknowledge Yahweh’s involvement in everything you do,

and he will ≈show you the best course to follow.

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

^but ratherobey Yahweh and turn away from evil.

8 It will be healing for your ≈stomach,

≈and refreshment for your bones.

9 Honour Yahweh from your wealth

≈and from the first of ≈everything you harvest,

10 →then your barns will be completely filled,

≈and your vats will ≈overflow with new wine.

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

and don’t resent his rebuke,[ref]

12 because Yahweh disciplines those he loves,[ref]

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

The True Wealth

13 The person who discovers wisdom is blessed,

≈as is the one who obtains understanding,

14 because it’s better than ≈a good income.

≡Being wise is ≈of more value than gold.

15 @Wisdom is more valuable than jewelry.

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

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

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

17 The ways @of wisdom are pleasant,

≈and all its ways are peaceful.

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

≈People who are consistently wise are blessed.

God’s Wisdom in Creation

19 Yahweh founded the world using wisdom.

≈He established the ≈atmosphere and sky by understanding.

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

and the clouds dripped dew.

The True Security


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

Safeguard sound wisdom and discretion

22 and they’ll ≈liven your mind,

and then ?≈people will notice it about you.

23 Then you’ll walk in confidence

without tripping or stumbling.

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

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

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

or about when you see wicked people facing ruin,

26 because your confidence will be in Yahweh,

and he will ≈protect you on your journey.

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

when you have the ≈ability and opportunity to act.

28 Don’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.

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

when he’s living beside you and trusting you.

30 Don’t quarrel with others for no reason—

if they haven’t done anything wrong to you.

31 Don’t envy violent #people,

and don’t imitate how they behave,

32 because Yahweh detests crooked people

^≈but is friendly towards those who are godly.

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

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

34 He mocks those who mock others,[ref]

≈but he shows favour towards those who are humble.

35 Wise people will inherit honour,

≈but fools will ≈receive shame.

4:1 The teaching of children

The Benefits of Wisdom; Parental Advice; A Father’s Wise Advice

Wisdom Is Supreme

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

≈Pay attention so you’ll learn well,

2 because I’ll give you good teaching.

Don’t abandon my instructions.

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

and ≡I was my mother’s tender son,

4 then he taught me and told me,

≈Remember what I have told you.

≈Follow my instructions and live.

5 Acquire wisdom and understanding.

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

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

≈Love it, and it will guard you.

7 Wisdom ≈is the priority—get hold of *it,

and ≈more than anything, acquire understanding.

8 Esteem @wisdom and it will lift you up.

@Wisdom will honour you when you embrace it.

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

≈It’ll present you with a crown of beauty.

Admonition to Keep to the Right Path

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

→and that’ll increase the years of your life.

11 I taught you how to ≈act wisely,

≈and I directed you towards the right paths.

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

≈and if you run, you won’t stumble.

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

≈Guard it, because it’s your ≈lifeline.

14 Don’t ≈imitate what wicked people do,

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

15 Avoid @that path—don’t even walk across it.

≈Keep right away from it and ≈go somewhere else,

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

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

17 @Those evil people eat the bread of wickedness,

and drink the wine of violence.

18 ≈In 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.

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

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

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

≈and let my words ≈sink in.

21 Don’t let them out of your sight,

≈and keep them in the centre of your ≈thoughts,

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

and healing to their entire bodies.

23 Guard your mind and thoughts more than anything else,

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

24 Remove perverse talk from your mouth,

and keep devious words away from your lips.

25 Keep your eyes looking towards the front,

≈and let your gaze be straight ahead.

26 Make the path level for your footsteps,

and let everything you do be ≈straight-forward.

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

keep your feet away from evil paths.

5:1 The warning concerning adultery

Avoid Immoral Women; Warning against Impurity and Infidelity; Warning against Adultery

Warning Against Adultery

5 My child, pay attention to my ≈wise words,

≈and ≈listen carefully to what I’ve learnt

2 ≈so you won’t lose your discretion,

≈and so your lips might guard knowledge.

3 Although the lips of a ≈forbidden woman drip honey,

and her speech is smoother than oil,

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

≈and sharper than a double-sided sword.

5 Her feet are heading down towards death,

≈and her steps will take her to &her grave.

6 ≈She doesn’t consider the path of life.

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

7 So now my children, listen to me,

≈and don’t deviate from my ≈advice.

8 Stay far away from her,

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

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

≈and your best years to a cruel person.

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

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

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

≈when your flesh and your body are ≈worn out

12 and you ≈recall, “How I hated discipline,

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

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

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

14 I was so close to utter calamity,

?≈and everyone would have noticed me.

15 Drink water from your own ≈supply[fn]

≈and flowing water from your own well.

16 Should your springs overflow out onto the streets,

≈with streams of water in the plaza?

17 Let them be for you alone,

≈and not for any strangers who are with you.

18 May your fountain be blessed,

and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth

19 a loving doe, ≈yes, a graceful deer.

Let her breasts satisfy you always.

≈Constantly be ≈overwhelmed by her love.

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

≈or embrace the bosom of a foreign woman

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

≈and he observes ≈all of your decisions?

22 Wicked people get trapped by their own ≈disobedience,

and they get tangled in their ropes of rebellion.

23 They’ll die from a lack of discipline,

and ≈their own stupidity will lead them astray.

6:1 The other still warning

More Warnings; Lessons for Daily Life; Practical Admonitions

Warnings Against Folly

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

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

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

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

3 ≈In 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.

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

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

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

≈or a bird fleeing from a trapper.

6 You lazy person, go and watch an ant.

→Think about its ≈behaviour, and be wise.

7 It doesn’t even have a commander,

or overseer or ruler.

8 It prepares its food in the summer.

≈It stores up its ≈supplies in the harvest season.

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

≈When will you get up from your sleep?

10 A little sleep, a quick nap,

≈a little folding of your arms to rest,

11 and poverty will ≈sneak in like a robber,

≈and need will threaten like ≈an armed man.

12 The wicked and worthless man

walks around with a crooked mouth,

13 winking with his eyes,

shuffling his feet along,

and pointing with his fingers.

14 ≈People like that think perversely

always devising evil plans

and ≈spreading dissension.

15 Because of that, disaster will come suddenly

they’ll be instantly broken beyond healing.

16 There are six things that Yahweh hates,

≈actually seven that ≈he finds detestable.

Warning against Adultery

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.

Warning Against Adultery

20 My child, ≈follow your father’s commands,

≈and don’t abandon ≈what your mother taught you.

21 ≈Lock them into your mind.

≈Tie them around your neck.

22 When 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,

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

Rebuke and discipline are the pathway to life

24 by keeping your from the evil woman—

from the smooth tongue of a foreign woman.

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

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

26 because 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.

27 Can anyone carry fire against their chest,

without their clothes ≈catching fire.

28 If a person walks on coals,

won’t they get their feet burnt?

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

No one will go unpunished for ≈doing that.

30 They might not despite a thief

if they’re stealing to satisfy their hunger,

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

they might lose ≈everything in their house.

32 Anyone who commits adultery lacks judgement—

they end up destroying their own life.

33 They’ll discover pain and dishonour,

and their shame will never be wiped away,

34 because jealousy arouses rage in an offended person

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

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

even if you try to ≈increase the amount.

7:1 The woman egpanpanlibug

The False Attractions of Adultery; Another Warning about Immoral Women

Warning Against the Adulteress

7 My child, ≈obey what I’ve told you,

and ≈store my instructions securely inside you.

2 ≈Follow my instructions and live,

≈and ≡keep my teaching as ≈the focus of your eyes.

3 Tie them onto your fingers.

≈Write them onto your mind.

4 Tell wisdom that she’s your sister,

and call understanding a close relative,

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

≈from the ≈ungodly woman whose words sound so smooth.

The Immoral Woman

6 ≈Once from the window of my house,

I looked down through the lattice slits,

7 and I saw a simple lad

a youth lacking ≈much judgement.

8 He was passing through her street near the corner,

then he strode along the path to her house.

9 In the twilight as evening began—

halfway towards night and darkness.

10 Then look, a woman greets him,

≈dressed like a prostitute and ≈skilled at seduction.

11 She’s boisterous and defiant,

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

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

and she lies in wait at every corner.

13 Then 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.

15 That’s why I came out to meet you—

≈to look all around until I found you.

16 I’ve put nice covers on my couch

coloured linen fabric from Egypt.

17 I’ve ≈perfumed my bed

with fragrant myrrh and aloes and cinnamon.

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

We can delight ourselves in our love

19 because the man of the house is away—

he’s gone away on a long journey.

20 He took a bag of money with him.

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

21 She persuades him with her seductive talk.

She compels him with her smooth lips.

22 He suddenly started following her,

like a cow going to be slaughtered

like a fool with a noose around his neck,

23 until an arrow pierces his ≈stomach,

like a bird rushing into a trap,

not knowing that it will cost him his life.

24 ≈So listen to me now my children,

and pay attention to ≈what I’m telling you.

25 Do let your ≈desires drive you in her direction.

Don’t wander onto her pathways

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

≈it would be difficult to count them all.

27 Her house is the pathway to the grave—

descending downwards to deathly rooms.

8:1 Praising wisdom

The Gifts of Wisdom; Wisdom and folly; Wisdom Calls for a Hearing; In Praise of Wisdom

Wisdom’s Call

8 Doesn’t wisdom call out?[ref]

≡Doesn’t understanding raise her voice?

2 On the high places by the road,

she stations herself between the paths.

3 By 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.

5 You naive people ≈must learn to be prudent,

≈and you foolish people ≈must learn to be discerning.

6 Listen because I’ll speak uplifting things,

and open my lips ≈about what is right,

7 because my mouth will tell the truth,

and my lips detest wickedness.

8 All the words in my mouth are ≈honest

≈there’s nothing twisted or crooked among them.

9 All of them are straightforward to anyone who understands,

and right to those looking for knowledge.

10 ≈Choose my instruction over silver,

≈and knowledge rather than ≈shiny gold,

11 because wisdom is better than jewels,

and there’s nothing more desirable than her.

12 I, wisdom, live together with ≈good judgement,

≈and I’m good at finding knowledge ≈and discretion.

13 ≈Those who strive to obey Yahweh, hate evil,

I, wisdom, hate pride and arrogance,

evil activities, and perverse talk.

14 ≈Good advice and sound wisdom are mine.

I have understanding and strength.

15 ≈I enable kings to reign well,

and rulers to ≈administer justice.

16 By me, princes and nobles rule—

judging ≈with impartiality.

17 I love those who love me,

and those who search for me will find me.

18 Riches and honour ≈accompany me—

enduring wealth and ≈fairness.

19 My fruit is better than ≈purest gold,

and my produce ≡is better than choice silver.

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

among the pathways ≈that lead to justice,

21 ≈so those who love me can inherit wealth,

≈as I fill their storerooms.

Wisdom’s Part in Creation

22 Yahweh created me ≈among his first actions

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

23 I was established from eternity—

before the beginnings of the ≈world.

24 I was ≈revealed before the deep oceans existed,

when there weren’t yet any springs ≈gushing water.

25 Before the mountains were ≈set into place,

and before the hills ≈were seen, I was ≈revealed.

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

or the first dust ≈on the ground.

27 I was there:

when @Yahweh made the skies,when he inscribed the horizoncircle above the ≈oceans,28 when he ≈pressed the clouds into shape,when he established the springs≈way down in the oceans.29 when he determined the boundaries of the oceans so that the waters wouldn’t ≈go past his line,when he marked out the earth’sfoundations.

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9:1 The wisdom and the stupidity

Wisdom’s Feast; Wisdom and Stupidity

Invitations of Wisdom and of Folly

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General Maxims

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Folly Calls for a Hearing; Folly’s Invitation and Promise

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10:1 The sayings of Solomon

The Proverbs of Solomon; Solomon’s Proverbs; Proverbs of Solomon; A collection of wise sayings; Wise Sayings of Solomon

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