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

¹Pregovori Salomona, sina Davidovega, kralja izraelskega:

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

²da se spozna modrost in uk, da se umejo razumnosti besede,

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

³da se sprejme pouk v modrem vedenju, v pravičnosti, pravi sodbi in poštenosti,

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

⁴da se dá preprostim pamet, mladeniču spoznanje in razsodnost.

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

⁵Čul jih bo modri in napredoval v znanosti, in razumnik si pridobode modrih vodil,

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

⁶da razume pregovore in skrivnostne izreke, besede modrih in njih uganke.

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

⁷Strah GOSPODOV je začetek znanja; modrost in pouk zaničujejo neumneži.

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

⁸Poslušaj, sin moj, očeta svojega pouk in ne zametuj nauka matere svoje:

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

⁹kajti krasen venec je to glavi tvoji in verižica zlata tvojemu grlu.

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

¹⁰Sin moj, ako te vabijo grešniki, se jim ne vdaj.

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

¹¹Ako govore: „Pojdi z nami, na kri prežímo, nedolžnega zalezujmo brez vzroka;

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

¹²pogoltnimo jih žive, kakor jih požira smrtni kraj, in nepoškodovane, kakor da bi naglo padli v jamo;

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

¹³vsakršno drago blago si pridobimo, s plenom napolnimo hiše svoje;

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

¹⁴srečo izkusi sredi nas, ena mošnja bodi nam vsem!“ –

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

¹⁵sin moj, ne hodi po poti ž njimi, zdrži nogo svojo od njih steze!

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

¹⁶Ker njih noge tečejo za hudim in kri hité prelivat.

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

¹⁷Res, zaman se razpenja mreža pred očmi vsakega ptiča,

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

¹⁸oni pa – sami na svojo kri preže, zalezujejo lastne duše svoje!

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

¹⁹Take so steze njih, ki iščejo krivičnega dobička: jemlje dušo njim, ki si ga lasté.

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

²⁰Modrost glasno kliče zunaj, na ulicah zaganja svoj glas;

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

²¹vpije, kjer se največ ljudstva gnete, ob vhodu v vrata, v mestu, govori besede svoje:

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

²²Doklej, o preprosti, boste ljubili nespamet in, zasmehovalci, imeli veselje v zasmehovanju in, bedaki, sovražili znanje?

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

²³Obrnite se k svarjenju mojemu! Glejte, izlijem vam duha svojega, oznanjala vam bom besede svoje.

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

²⁴Toda, ko sem klicala, ste se branili, ko sem iztezala roko svojo, nihče se ni zmenil zanjo,

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

²⁵temuč prezirali ste vse svete moje in svarila mojega si niste želeli:

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

²⁶zato se bom tudi jaz smejala v nesreči vaši in vas zasmehovala, kadar pride, česar se bojite;

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

²⁷kadar pride kakor besneča uima, česar se bojite, in se približa nesreča vaša kakor nevihta, ko pridere nad vas stiska in nadloga.

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

²⁸Tedaj me bodo klicali, pa jim ne odgovorim, skrbno me bodo iskali, a ne najdejo me:

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

²⁹zato ker so sovražili znanje in strahu GOSPODOVEGA niso izvolili,

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

³⁰svetov mojih niso hoteli, a zaničevali so vse svarjenje moje.

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

³¹Zato bodo jedli od sadu pota svojega in sitili se z naklepi svojimi.

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

³²Zakaj bebcev upor jih ubije in brezkrbnost bedakov jih pokonča.Kdor pa mene posluša, brez skrbi bo prebival in mir užival, ne boječ se hudega.

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

³³Kdor pa mene posluša, brez skrbi bo prebival in mir užival, ne boječ se hudega.