ECB(i)
1 The proverbs of Shelomoh the son of David sovereign of Yisra El:
2 to know wisdom and discipline; to discern sayings of discernment;
3 to take discipline of comprehension, justness, judgment and straightnesses;
4 to give strategy to the gullible; to the lad knowledge and intrigue.
5 The wise hear and increase doctrine; and the discerning chattelize to wise counsels:
6 to discern a proverb and the satire; the words of the wise and their riddles.
7 to awe of Yah Veh is the beginning of knowledge; fools disrespect wisdom and discipline.
8 My son, hear the discipline of your father and abandon not the torah of your mother:
9 - a wreath of charism to your head and chokers around your throat.
10 My son, if sinners entice you, be not willing:
11 if they say, Come with us, we lurk for blood, we hide out gratuitously for the innocent;
12 we swallow them alive as sheol; the integrious, as those who descend into the well;
13 we find all esteemed wealth; we fill our houses with spoil;
14 fell your pebble among us; we all have one pouch!
15 - my son, walk not in the way with them; withhold your foot from their path:
16 for their feet run to evil and hasten to pour blood.
17 Surely the net is winnowed gratuitously in the eye of any master of wing:
18 they lurk for their own blood; they hide out for their own souls:
19 thus are the ways of all the greedy of greed; who take away the soul of their masters.
20 Wisdom shouts; she gives her voice in the broadways;
21 she calls out in the top of the roaring - in the portals of the portals; in the city she says her sayings,
22 Until when, O gullible, love you gullibility? and scorners delight in their scorning? and fools hate knowledge?
23 Turn at my reproof; behold, I gush my spirit to you; I make known my words to you.
24 Because I called and you refuse; I spread my hand and no one hearkens;
25 you loose all my counsel and will none of my reproof.
26 I laugh at your calamity; I deride when your dread comes
27 - when your dread comes as devastation and your calamity comes as a hurricane; when tribulation and distress come on you.
28 Then they call me, and I answer not; they seek me early, and they find me not;
29 because they hate knowledge and choose not the awe of Yah Veh;
30 they will not my counsel; they scorn all my reproof;
31 they eat of the fruit of their own way and satiate with their own counsels:
32 for the apostasy of the gullible slaughters them and the serenity of fools destroys them.
33 And whoever hearkens to me tabernacles confidently; and relaxes from dread of evil.