# Proverbs 1 ## Proverbs 1:1 - [KJV] The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; - [ASV] The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel: - [YLT] Proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel: ### Notes on Proverbs 1:1 - ## Proverbs 1:2 - [KJV] To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding; - [ASV] To know wisdom and instruction; To discern the words of understanding; - [YLT] For knowing wisdom and instruction, For understanding sayings of intelligence, ### Notes on Proverbs 1:2 - ## Proverbs 1:3 - [KJV] To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity; - [ASV] To receive instruction in wise dealing, In righteousness and justice and equity; - [YLT] For receiving the instruction of wisdom, Righteousness, judgment, and uprightness, ### Notes on Proverbs 1:3 - ## Proverbs 1:4 - [KJV] To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion. - [ASV] To give prudence to the simple, To the young man knowledge and discretion: - [YLT] For giving to simple ones -- prudence, To a youth -- knowledge and discretion. ### Notes on Proverbs 1:4 - ## Proverbs 1:5 - [KJV] A wise *man* will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels: - [ASV] That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; And that the man of understanding may attain unto sound counsels: - [YLT] (The wise doth hear and increaseth learning, And the intelligent doth obtain counsels.) ### Notes on Proverbs 1:5 - ## Proverbs 1:6 - [KJV] To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings. - [ASV] To understand a proverb, and a figure, The words of the wise, and their dark sayings. - [YLT] For understanding a proverb and its sweetness, Words of the wise and their acute sayings. ### Notes on Proverbs 1:6 - ## Proverbs 1:7 - [KJV] The fear of the LORD *is* the beginning of knowledge: *but* fools despise wisdom and instruction. - [ASV] The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge; *But* the foolish despise wisdom and instruction. - [YLT] Fear of Jehovah *is* a beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and instruction fools have despised! ### Notes on Proverbs 1:7 - ## Proverbs 1:8 - [KJV] My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: - [ASV] My son, hear the instruction of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother: - [YLT] Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother, ### Notes on Proverbs 1:8 - ## Proverbs 1:9 - [KJV] For they *shall be* an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck. - [ASV] For they shall be a chaplet of grace unto thy head, And chains about thy neck. - [YLT] For a graceful wreath *are* they to thy head, And chains to thy neck. ### Notes on Proverbs 1:9 - ## Proverbs 1:10 - [KJV] My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. - [ASV] My son, if sinners entice thee, Consent thou not. - [YLT] My son, if sinners entice thee be not willing. ### Notes on Proverbs 1:10 - ## Proverbs 1:11 - [KJV] If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: - [ASV] If they say, Come with us, Let us lay wait for blood; Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause; - [YLT] If they say, 'Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause, ### Notes on Proverbs 1:11 - ## Proverbs 1:12 - [KJV] Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: - [ASV] Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, And whole, as those that go down into the pit; - [YLT] We swallow them as Sheol -- alive, And whole -- as those going down *to* the pit, ### Notes on Proverbs 1:12 - ## Proverbs 1:13 - [KJV] We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil: - [ASV] We shall find all precious substance; We shall fill our houses with spoil; - [YLT] Every precious substance we find, We fill our houses *with* spoil, ### Notes on Proverbs 1:13 - ## Proverbs 1:14 - [KJV] Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse: - [ASV] Thou shalt cast thy lot among us; We will all have one purse: - [YLT] Thy lot thou dost cast among us, One purse is -- to all of us.' ### Notes on Proverbs 1:14 - ## Proverbs 1:15 - [KJV] My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path: - [ASV] My son, walk not thou in the way with them; Refrain thy foot from their path: - [YLT] My son! go not in the way with them, Withhold thy foot from their path, ### Notes on Proverbs 1:15 - ## Proverbs 1:16 - [KJV] For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. - [ASV] For their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed blood. - [YLT] For their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed blood. ### Notes on Proverbs 1:16 - ## Proverbs 1:17 - [KJV] Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. - [ASV] For in vain is the net spread In the sight of any bird: - [YLT] Surely in vain is the net spread out before the eyes of any bird. ### Notes on Proverbs 1:17 - ## Proverbs 1:18 - [KJV] And they lay wait for their *own* blood; they lurk privily for their *own* lives. - [ASV] And these lay wait for their own blood; They lurk privily for their own lives. - [YLT] And they for their own blood lay wait, They watch secretly for their own lives. ### Notes on Proverbs 1:18 - ## Proverbs 1:19 - [KJV] So *are* the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; *which* taketh away the life of the owners thereof. - [ASV] So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; It taketh away the life of the owners thereof. - [YLT] So *are* the paths of every gainer of dishonest gain, The life of its owners it taketh. ### Notes on Proverbs 1:19 - ## Proverbs 1:20 - [KJV] Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: - [ASV] Wisdom crieth aloud in the street; She uttereth her voice in the broad places; - [YLT] Wisdom in an out-place crieth aloud, In broad places she giveth forth her voice, ### Notes on Proverbs 1:20 - ## Proverbs 1:21 - [KJV] She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, *saying*, - [ASV] She crieth in the chief place of concourse; At the entrance of the gates, In the city, she uttereth her words: - [YLT] At the head of the multitudes she calleth, In the openings of the gates, In the city her sayings she saith: ### Notes on Proverbs 1:21 - ## Proverbs 1:22 - [KJV] How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? - [ASV] How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And scoffers delight them in scoffing, And fools hate knowledge? - [YLT] 'Till when, ye simple, do ye love simplicity? And have scorners their scorning desired? And do fools hate knowledge? ### Notes on Proverbs 1:22 - ## Proverbs 1:23 - [KJV] Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you. - [ASV] Turn you at my reproof: Behold, I will pour out my spirit upon you; I will make known my words unto you. - [YLT] Turn back at my reproof, lo, I pour forth to you my spirit, I make known my words with you. ### Notes on Proverbs 1:23 - ## Proverbs 1:24 - [KJV] Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; - [ASV] Because I have called, and ye have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man hath regarded; - [YLT] Because I have called, and ye refuse, I stretched out my hand, and none is attending, ### Notes on Proverbs 1:24 - ## Proverbs 1:25 - [KJV] But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: - [ASV] But ye have set at nought all my counsel, And would none of my reproof: - [YLT] And ye slight all my counsel, And my reproof ye have not desired. ### Notes on Proverbs 1:25 - ## Proverbs 1:26 - [KJV] I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; - [ASV] I also will laugh in *the day of* your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; - [YLT] I also in your calamity do laugh, I deride when your fear cometh, ### Notes on Proverbs 1:26 - ## Proverbs 1:27 - [KJV] When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. - [ASV] When your fear cometh as a storm, And your calamity cometh on as a whirlwind; When distress and anguish come upon you. - [YLT] When your fear cometh as destruction, And your calamity as a hurricane doth come, When on you come adversity and distress. ### Notes on Proverbs 1:27 - ## Proverbs 1:28 - [KJV] Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: - [ASV] Then will they call upon me, but I will not answer; They will seek me diligently, but they shall not find me: - [YLT] Then they call me, and I do not answer, They seek me earnestly, and find me not. ### Notes on Proverbs 1:28 - ## Proverbs 1:29 - [KJV] For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD: - [ASV] For that they hated knowledge, And did not choose the fear of Jehovah: - [YLT] Because that they have hated knowledge, And the fear of Jehovah have not chosen. ### Notes on Proverbs 1:29 - ## Proverbs 1:30 - [KJV] They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof. - [ASV] They would none of my counsel; They despised all my reproof. - [YLT] They have not consented to my counsel, They have despised all my reproof, ### Notes on Proverbs 1:30 - ## Proverbs 1:31 - [KJV] Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. - [ASV] Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, And be filled with their own devices. - [YLT] And they eat of the fruit of their way, And from their own counsels they are filled. ### Notes on Proverbs 1:31 - ## Proverbs 1:32 - [KJV] For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. - [ASV] For the backsliding of the simple shall slay them, And the careless ease of fools shall destroy them. - [YLT] For the turning of the simple slayeth them, And the security of the foolish destroyeth them. ### Notes on Proverbs 1:32 - ## Proverbs 1:33 - [KJV] But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil. - [ASV] But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell securely, And shall be quiet without fear of evil. - [YLT] And whoso is hearkening to me dwelleth confidently, And *is* quiet from fear of evil!' ### Notes on Proverbs 1:33 -