¹The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;

¹Mudre izreke Salomona, sina Davidova, kralja izraelskog:

²To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;

²da se spozna mudrost i pouka, da se shvate razumne riječi;

³To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;

³da se primi umna pouka, pravda i pravica i nepristranost;

⁴To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.

⁴da se dade pamet neiskusnima, mladiću znanje i umijeće;

⁵A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:

⁵kad mudar čuje, da umnoži znanje, a razuman steče mudrije misli;

⁶To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.

⁶da razumije izreke i prispodobe, riječi mudraca i njihove zagonetke.

⁷The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

⁷Strah je Gospodnji početak spoznaje, ali ludi preziru mudrost i pouku.

⁸My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

⁸Poslušaj, sine moj, pouku oca svoga i ne odbacuj naputka svoje majke!

⁹For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.

⁹Jer će ti biti ljupki vijenac na glavi i ogrlica oko tvoga vrata.

¹⁰My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.

¹⁰Sine moj, ako te grešnici mame, ne pristaj;

¹¹If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

¹¹ako bi rekli: "Hodi s nama, da vrebamo krv, čekamo u zasjedi nevina ni za što;

¹²Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

¹²da ih progutamo žive kao carstvo smrti i cijele kao one koji silaze u grob;

¹³We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:

¹³naplijenit ćemo svakojaka blaga, napuniti svoje kuće plijenom;

¹⁴Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:

¹⁴bacat ćeš s nama svoj ždrijeb, svi ćemo zajedno imati jednu kesu."

¹⁵My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:

¹⁵Sine moj, ne idi s njima na put, makni nogu od njihove staze.

¹⁶For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

¹⁶Jer na zlo trče svojim nogama i hite prolijevati krv.

¹⁷Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

¹⁷Jer uzalud je razapinjati mrežu pred očima svima pticama.

¹⁸And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.

¹⁸A oni vrebaju vlastitu krv, postavljaju zasjedu svojemu životu.

¹⁹So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

¹⁹Takva je sudba svih lakomih na ružan dobitak: on ih života stane.

²⁰Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:

²⁰Mudrost glasno uzvikuje na ulici, na trgovima diže svoj glas;

²¹She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,

²¹propovijeda po bučnim uglovima, na otvorenim gradskim vratima govori svoje riječi:

²²How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

²²"Dokle ćete, vi glupi, ljubiti glupost i dokle će podsmjevačima biti milo podsmijevanje, i dokle će bezumnici mrziti znanje?

²³Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.

²³Poslušajte moju opomenu! Gle, svoj duh pred vas izlijevam, hoću vas poučiti svojim riječima.

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

²⁴Koliko sam vas zvala, a vi ste odbijali; pružala sam ruku, ali je nitko ne opazi.

²⁵But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:

²⁵Nego ste odbacili svaki moj savjet i niste poslušali moje opomene;

²⁶I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;

²⁶zato ću se i ja smijati vašoj propasti, rugat ću se kad vas obuzme tjeskoba:

²⁷When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.

²⁷kad navali na vas strah kao nevrijeme i zgrabi vas propast kao vihor, kad navali na vas nevolja i muka.

²⁸Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:

²⁸Tada će me zvati, ali se ja neću odazvati; tražit će me, ali me neće naći.

²⁹For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:

²⁹Jer su mrzili spoznaju i nisu izabrali Gospodnjeg straha

³⁰They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.

³⁰niti su poslušali moj savjet, nego su prezreli svaku moju opomenu.

³¹Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

³¹Zato će jesti plod svojeg vladanja i nasititi se vlastitih savjeta.

³²For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

³²Jer glupe će ubiti njihovo odbijanje, a nemar će upropastiti bezumne.

³³But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.

³³A tko sluša mene, bezbrižan ostaje i spokojno živi bez straha od zla."