To understand a proverb, and an enigma: the words of the wise and their parables.

For they a garland of grace to thy head, and necklaces for thy throat

If they shall say, Go with us, we will lie in wait for blood, we will hide for the innocent gratuitously;

We will swallow them down living, as hades, and whole, as they going down to the pit:

We shall find precious riches, we will fill our houses with spoil:

My son, thou shalt not go in the way with them; withhold thy foot from their beaten paths:

For gratuitously the net was spread in the eyes of all possessing a wing.

How long, ye simple, will ye love simplicity? and mockers delight to mock for them, and the foolish hate knowledge?

Ye shall turn back at my reproofs: behold, I will pour forth my spirit to you, I will make known my words to you.

Because I called and ye will refuse; I stretched forth my hands, and none attending;

And ye will reject all my counsels, and ye desired not my reproofs:

Also I will laugh at your ruin: I will deride in the coming of your terror;

In your terror coming as a destroying tempest, and your ruin shall come as a whirlwind; in the coming upon you of straits and distress.

Then they shall call upon me, and I will not answer; they shall seek me, and shall not find me;

And they shall eat from the fruit of their way, and be filled with their purposes

For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the error of the foolish shall destroy them.

He treasured up deliverance for the upright: a shield to those going in uprightness:

To guard the paths of judgment, and he will watch the way of his godly ones.

To deliver thee from the evil way, from the man speaking deceit;

So that thou shalt go in the way of the good, and thou shalt watch the paths of the just

For whom Jehovah shall love he will rebuke, as a father the son he will delight in.

She is a tree of life to all holding upon her: and happy he holding her fast

Then shalt thou go thy way confidently, and thy foot shall not stumble.

Thou shalt not say to thy neighbor, Go, and turn back, and to-morrow I will give; and there is with thee.

Thou shalt not envy against a man of violence, and thou shalt choose in all his ways.

Hear, ye sons, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.

For I gave to you good instruction; ye shall not forsake my law.

For I was son to my father; tender and only before the face of my mother.

She will give to thy head a garland of grace: a crown of glory she will deliver thee.

In the way of wisdom I taught thee; I caused thee to tread in the tracks of uprightness

In the path of the unjust thou shalt not go, and thou shalt not advance in the way of the wicked.

For they slept not, if they shall not do evil; and their sleep was taken away, if they shall not cause to falter.

The way of the unjust as darkness: they shall not know in what they shall stumble.

Turn away from thee perverseness of mouth, and frowardness of lips remove far oft from thee.

Thou shalt not decline to the right and the left: turn away thy foot from evil

And her latter state being bitter as wormwood; sharp as a two-mouthed sword.

And now, ye sons, hear to me, and ye shall not depart from the words of my mouth.

Remove far off from her thy way, and thou shalt not draw near to the door of her house:

And thou saidst, How did I hate instruction, and my heart despise reproofs

And I heard not to the voice of him teaching me, and I inclined not mine ear to him instructing me.

As I was almost in all evil in the midst of the convocation and the assembly.

And wherefore, my son, wilt thou wander with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

My son, if thou becamest surety for thy friend, thou didst strike thy hands for a stranger;

How long, O slothful one, wilt thou lie down? when wilt thou rise from thy sleep?

A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to lie down:

And thy poverty came as he going, and thy want as a man of the shield.

A man of Belial, a man of iniquity, goes with perverseness of mouth.

For this, his destruction shall come suddenly; in a moment he shall be broken, and none healing.

Eyes being lifted up; a tongue of falsehood, and hands shedding innocent blood,

A heart fabricating purposes of iniquity; feet being quick to run to evil,

A witness of falsehood, breathing out lies, and sending strife between brethren.

For the command is a lamp, and the law a light; and the way of life the reproof of instruction:

For by a woman a harlot, even to a round of bread: and a man's wife will hunt the precious soul.

A man taking fire in his bosom, shall his garments not be burnt?

If a man shall go upon burning coals shall his feet not be burnt?

They will not despise a thief if he shall steal to fill up his soul; for he will be hungry.

He committing adultery with a woman lacked a heart: destroying his soul he will do it.

A blow and contempt shall he find; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.

For in the window of my house I looked forth through my lattice,

And I shall see among the simple, I shall perceive among the sons a youth wanting heart,

Passing in the street near her corner; and he will step the way of her house,

And behold, a woman to his meeting, the attire of a harlot, and hidden of heart

Sacrifices of peace upon me: today I repaid my vows.

For this, I shall come forth to thy meeting, to seek thy face, and I shall find thee.

With adornings I spread my bed, variegated with thread of Egypt

I sprinkled my bed with myrrh and aloes and cinnamon.

Come, we will be satisfied with loves till the morning: we will rejoice ourselves with loves.

For the man not in the house, he went in a way far off.

He took a bundle of silver in his hand; he will come to his house the day of the full moon.

With much of her talking she caused him to turn aside; with the smoothness of her lips she will thrust him away.

Till an arrow shall cleave his liver; as a bird hastening to the snare, and not knowing that it is for his soul.

And now, ye sons, hear to me, and attend to the sayings of my mouth.

She stood upon the head of the heights, upon the way of the house of the beaten paths.

To you, ye men, I shall call, and my voice is to the sons of man.

Understand craftiness, ye simple: and ye foolish, understand the heart

Hear ye, for I will speak dear things; and the openings of my lips uprightnesses.

I wisdom dwelt with prudence, and I shall find the knowledge of machinations.

The fear of Jehovah hates evil: pride and haughtiness, and the evil way, and the mouth of perverseness I hated.

To me counsel and wisdom: I am understanding; to me is strength.

I loved those loving me: and they seeking me shall find me.

I shall go in the way of justice, in the midst of the beaten paths of judgment:

To cause those loving me to inherit existence: and I will fill their treasures.

Jehovah set me up the beginning of his way, before his works from ancient time.

From forever I was knit together, from the beginning, from the first of the earth.

In no depths was I begun; in no fountains abundant in waters.

Before the mountains were settled; before the hills I had a beginning:

In his preparing the heavens I was there: in his inscribing a circle upon the face of the deep:

And I shall be near him the builder, and I shall be a delight of day, day, smiling before him in all time

And now ye sons, hear to me: and the happy shall watch my ways.

Hear ye instructions, and be wise, and ye shall not reject it

Who the simple, he shall turn aside here: he wanting heart, she said to him,

Come ye, eat of my bread, and drink ye of the wine I mingled.

Forsake ye the foolish, and live; and go straight in the way of understanding.

A woman of folly being noisy, simple, and she knew not anything.

To call to those passing the way, making straight their paths:

Who is simple, he shall turn aside here: and he wanting heart, and she said to him,

Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son will gladden a father: and a son of the foolish will grieve his mother.

Jehovah will not cause the soul of the just one to hunger: and he will thrust away the desire of the unjust

A slothful hand makes poverty, and the hand of the active will make rich.

He gathering in summer, is a prudent son: he lying in deep sleep in harvest, a son causing shame.