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1:1  Mishlei Sh’lomo Ben Dovid, Melech Yisroel;
1:2  To have da’as of chochmah and musar (discipline); to understand the words of binah;
1:3  To receive the musar of those with seichel, tzedek and mishpat, and meisharim (equity, uprightness);
1:4  To give subtlety to the simple, to the na’ar, da’as and discretion.
1:5  A chacham (wise person) will hear, and will increase learning, and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
1:6  To understand a mashal (proverb), and the melitzah (enigma); the divrei chachamim, and their chidot (riddles).
1:7  The Yirat Hashem is the reshit da’as, but fools despise chochmah and musar.
1:8  Beni (my son), hear the musar Avicha, and forsake not the Torat Immecha.
1:9  For they shall be a garland of chen unto thy rosh, and a chain about thy neck.
1:10  Beni (my son), if chatt’aim (sinners) entice thee, consent thou not.
1:11  If they say, Come with us, let us lie in wait for dahm, let us lurk secretly for the naki (innocent, harmless) chinnom (without cause);
1:12  Let us swallow them up chayyim (alive) like She’ol; and whole, as those that go down into the bor (pit);
1:13  We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill bateinu (our houses) with plunder;
1:14  Throw in thy goral (lot) among us; let all of us have kis echad (one pouch, purse).
1:15  Beni (my son), walk not thou in the derech with them; refrain thy regel from their path;
1:16  For their raglayim run to rah, and make haste for shefach dahm (shedding of blood).
1:17  Surely in vain the reshet (net) is spread in the eyes of kol ba’al kanaf (all the birds, i.e., lit. master of [the] wing);
1:18  And they lie in wait for their own dahm; they lurk secretly for their own nafshot.
1:19  So 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.
1:20  Chochmot crieth out in the street; she lifts up her voice in the rechovot (city squares);
1:21  She 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,
1:22  Ad mosai, ye simple ones, will ye love being simpletons? And the scoffers delight in their mockery, and kesilim (fools) hate da’as?
1:23  Turn you at my tokhechah (reproof); hinei, I will pour out my ruach unto you, I will make known my devarim unto you.
1:24  Because I have called, and ye refused, I have stretched out my yad, and no man regarded;
1:25  But ye have disdained all my etza (counsel), and would have none of my tokhechah (reproof);
1:26  I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your pachad (terror) cometh;
1:27  When your pachad (terror) cometh like a storm, and your calamity cometh like a whirlwind; when tzarah (distress) and oppression cometh upon you.
1:28  Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall look for me diligently, but they shall not find me;
1:29  For that they hated da’as, and did not choose the Yirat Hashem;
1:30  They would have none of my etza (counsel); they despised all my tokhechah (reproof).
1:31  Therefore shall they eat of the p’ri (fruit) of their own derech, and be filled with their own mo’atzot (schemes, devices).
1:32  For the waywardness of the simple shall slay them, and the complacent contentment of kesilim (fools) shall destroy them.
1:33  But the one who payeth heed unto me [Chochmat Hashem, i.e., the Redemptive Word, not only Hashem’s creative agent (Ps 33:6; Prov 8:30; 30:4) but the one who comes with a healing mission according to Ps 107:20, though Moshiach has to die in the midst of his healing Mission to accomplish our healing from guilt and punitive dread-Isa 53:5] shall dwell safely, and shall be secure from pachad ra’ah (terror of evil).