1Mishlei Sh'lomo Ben Dovid, Melech Yisroel;

2To have da'as of chochmah and musar (discipline);
to understand the words of binah;

3To receive the musar of those with seichel,
tzedek and mishpat, and meisharim (equity, uprightness);

4To give subtlety to the simple,
to the na'ar, da'as and discretion.

5A chacham (wise person) will hear, and will increase learning,
and a man of understanding shall acquire wise counsel:

6To understand a mashal (proverb), and the melitzah (enigma);
the divrei chachamim, and their chidot (riddles).

7The Yirat Hashem is the reshit da'as,
but fools despise chochmah and musar.

8Beni (my son), hear the musar Avicha,
and forsake not the Torat Immecha.

9For they shall be a garland of chen unto thy rosh,
and a chain about thy neck.

10Beni (my son), if chatt'aim (sinners) entice thee,
consent thou not.

11If they say, Come with us,
let us lie in wait for dahm,
let us lurk secretly for the naki (innocent, harmless) chinnom (without cause);

12Let us swallow them up chayyim (alive) like She'ol;
and whole, as those that go down into the bor (pit);

13We shall find all precious substance,
we shall fill bateinu (our houses) with plunder;

14Throw in thy goral (lot) among us;
let all of us have kis echad (one pouch, purse).

15Beni (my son), walk not thou in the derech with them;
refrain thy regel from their path;

16For their raglayim run to rah,
and make haste for shefach dahm (shedding of blood).

17Surely in vain the reshet (net) is spread
in the eyes of kol ba'al kanaf (all the birds); ⁰

18And they lie in wait for their own dahm;
they lurk secretly for their own nafshot.

19So are the ways of every one that is greedy for betza (ill-gotten gain);
which taketh away the nefesh of the be'alim (owners) thereof.

20Chochmot crieth out in the street;
she lifts up her voice in the rechovot (city squares);

21She crieth out in the chief place of concourse,
in the openings of the she'arim (gates);
in the Ir (city) she uttereth her words, saying,

22Ad mosai, ye simple ones, will ye love being simpletons?
And the scoffers delight in their mockery,
and kesilim (fools) hate da'as?

23Turn you at my tokhechah (reproof); hinei,
I will pour out my ruach unto you,
I will make known my devarim unto you.

24Because I have called, and ye refused,
I have stretched out my yad, and no man regarded;

25But ye have disdained all my etza (counsel),
and would have none of my tokhechah (reproof);

26I also will laugh at your calamity;
I will mock when your pachad (terror) cometh;

27When your pachad (terror) cometh like a storm,
and your calamity cometh like a whirlwind;
when tzarah (distress) and oppression cometh upon you.

28Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer;
they shall look for me diligently, but they shall not find me;

29For that they hated da'as,
and did not choose the Yirat Hashem;

30They would have none of my etza (counsel);
they despised all my tokhechah (reproof).

31Therefore shall they eat of the p'ri (fruit) of their own derech,
and be filled with their own mo'atzot (schemes, devices).

32For the waywardness of the simple shall slay them,
and the complacent contentment of kesilim (fools) shall destroy them.

33But the one who payeth heed unto me ¹shall dwell safely,
and shall be secure from pachad ra'ah (terror of evil).