Pro Proverbs, chapter Proverbs of Solomon, chapter 1
Mishlei Sh'lomo Ben Dovid, Melech Yisroel;1Ki 5:12
To have da'as of chochmah and musar (discipline);
to understand the words of binah;
To receive the musar of those with seichel,
tzedek and mishpat, and meisharim (equity, uprightness);
To give subtlety to the simple,
to the na'ar, da'as and discretion.
A chacham (wise person) will hear, and will increase learning,
and a man of understanding shall acquire wise counsel:
To understand a mashal (proverb), and the melitzah (enigma);
the divrei chachamim, and their chidot (riddles).
The Yirat Hashem is the reshit da'as,
but fools despise chochmah and musar.Job 28:28; Psa 111:10; Ecc 12:13
Beni (my son), hear the musar Avicha,
and forsake not the Torat Immecha.
For they shall be a garland of chen unto thy rosh,
and a chain about thy neck.Pro 4:9
Beni (my son), if chatt'aim (sinners) entice thee,
consent thou not.Pro 4:14
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);Jer 5:26; Mic 7:2
Let us swallow them up chayyim (alive) like She'ol;
and whole, as those that go down into the bor (pit);Psa 124:3
We shall find all precious substance,
we shall fill bateinu (our houses) with plunder;
Throw in thy goral (lot) among us;
let all of us have kis echad (one pouch, purse).
Beni (my son), walk not thou in the derech with them;
refrain thy regel from their path;Psa 1:1
For their raglayim run to rah,
and make haste for shefach dahm (shedding of blood).Isa 59:7; Rom 3:15
Surely in vain the reshet (net) is spread
in the eyes of kol ba'al kanaf (all the birds);1:17 i.e., lit. master of [the] wing
And they lie in wait for their own dahm;
they lurk secretly for their own nafshot.Mat 26:16
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.
Chochmot crieth out in the street;
she lifts up her voice in the rechovot (city squares);Pro 8:1; Luk 11:49
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,Pro 8:3
Ad mosai, ye simple ones, will ye love being simpletons?
And the scoffers delight in their mockery,
and kesilim (fools) hate da'as?
Turn you at my tokhechah (reproof); hinei,
I will pour out my ruach unto you,
I will make known my devarim unto you.
Because I have called, and ye refused,
I have stretched out my yad, and no man regarded;Isa 65:12; Isa 66:4; Jer 7:13
But ye have disdained all my etza (counsel),
and would have none of my tokhechah (reproof);
I also will laugh at your calamity;
I will mock when your pachad (terror) cometh;Deu 28:63; Ezk 21:22
When your pachad (terror) cometh like a storm,
and your calamity cometh like a whirlwind;
when tzarah (distress) and oppression cometh upon you.
Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer;
they shall look for me diligently, but they shall not find me;Isa 1:15; Jer 11:11
For that they hated da'as,
and did not choose the Yirat Hashem;Pro 1:24; Act 13:40
They would have none of my etza (counsel);
they despised all my tokhechah (reproof).
Therefore shall they eat of the p'ri (fruit) of their own derech,
and be filled with their own mo'atzot (schemes, devices).Isa 3:10
For the waywardness of the simple shall slay them,
and the complacent contentment of kesilim (fools) shall destroy them.
But the one who payeth heed unto me1:33 Chochmat Hashem, i.e., the Redemptive Word, not only Hashemʼs 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).Psa 112:7