Proverbs Chapter 1

Use of proverbs

1:1 The proverbs of Solomonשְׁלֹמֹה‎
His two names mean “peaceful” and “friend of God”, both considered “predictive of the character of his reign Reign 970–931 BCE (hypothesized) For more info click here the son of Davidדָּוִד ‎
/ˈdeɪvɪd/; romanized: Dāwīḏ, “beloved one”) Historians of the Ancient Near East agree that David probably lived around 1000 BCE. For more info click here, king of Israelיִשְׂרָאֵל
Transliteration: yiśrā’ēl The name Israel (Septuagint Ancient Greek: Ἰσραήλ, Israēl, “El (God) persists/rules” or “God prevails”) refers to the patriarch Jacob who, according to the Hebrew Bible, was given the name after he successfully wrestled with the Angel of the Lord. The earliest known archaeological artifact to mention the word Israel as a collective is the Merneptah Stele of ancient Egypt (dated to the late-13th century BCE) for more info click here;
1:2 To make known wisdom and discipline; to make words of understanding;
1:3 to gain an intelligently disciplined life, righteousnessצֶדֶק‎
Transliteration:ṣeḏeq Pronunciation:tseh’-dek the right (natural, moral or legal); also (abstractly) equity or (figuratively) prosperity:—× even, (× that which is altogether) just(-ice), (un-)right(-eous) (cause, -ly, -ness). For more info click here, and justiceוּמִשְׁפָּט‎
Transliteration: ûmišpāṭ – properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant’s) divine law, individual or collective), including the act, the place, the suit, the crime, and the penalty; abstractly, justice, including a participant’s right or privilege (statutory or customary), or even a style:— adversary, ceremony, charge custom, desert, determination, discretion, disposing, due, fashion, form, to be judged, judgment, just(-ice, -ly), (manner of) law(-ful), manner, measure, (due) order, ordinance, right, sentence. For more info click here, and fairness;
1:4 To provide cleverness to the simpletons, a young man with knowledge and discretion.
1:5 that a wise man may hear, and increase [his] learning; and a discerning man acquire guidance:
1:6 To understand a parable, and the proverb; the words of the wise, and their riddles.

Warning to believe and fear

1:7 The fear of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here is the beginning of knowledge: but fools scorn wisdom and discipline.
1:8 Hear, my son, the discipline of your father, and don’t forsake the teachingתּוֹרַת‎
Transliteration: tôraṯ, law, teaching, direction, instruction – The first five books of the Bible or also called “the books of Moses” comes from an archery term meaning to shoot. of your mother:
1:9 Because they are an adornment of grace for your head, and a chain for your neck.
1:10 My son, if sinnersחַטָּאִים
Transliteration: ḥaṭṭā’îm – Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Absolute offense (sometimes habitual sinfulness), and its penalty, occasion, sacrifice, or expiation; also (concretely) an offender:—punishment (of sin), purifying(-fication for sin), sin(-ner, offering From an archery term meaning to miss the mark For more info click here seduce you, don’t be enticed.
1:11 If they say, Come with us, let us wait in ambush for bloodshed, let us lurk for an innocent one without cause:
1:12 Like Sheolכִּשְׁאוֹל‎
Transliteration: kiš’ôl underworld, grave, hell, pit For more info click here, let us swallow them up alive ; and whole, like those that descend into the pit:
1:13 We will find all [their] precious wealth, we will fill our houses with plunder:
1:14 Throw in your lot among us; we’ll have one purse:
1:15 My son, don’t you walk on the pathבְּדֶרֶךְ
Transliteration: ba dereḵ Pronunciation: bah deh’-rek way, Hebrew Noun: Common Both Singular Construct – on the road, in the distance, in the journey, in the manner, in the path, in the direction For more info click here with them; withhold your foot from their path:
1:16 Because their feet run to evilלָרַע‎
Transliteration: lāraʿ – In the KJV is translated in the following manner: evil (442x), wickedness (59x), wicked (25x), mischief (21x), hurt (20x), bad (13x), trouble (10x), sore (9x), affliction (6x), ill (5x), adversity (4x), ill favored (3x), harm (3x), naught (3x), noisome (2x), grievous (2x), sad (2x), miscellaneous (34x) For more info click here, and rush to shed blood.
1:17 Because the net seems spread out with free [bait], sight of any bird.
1:18 but they wait in ambush for their blood; they lurk for their livesלְנַפְשֹׁתָם
Transliteration: lᵊnap̄šōṯām -Hebrew Noun: Common Both Plural Construct – Meaning: soul, self, life, creature, person, appetite, mind, living being, desire, emotion, passion For more info click here.
1:19 So are the ways of all robbers; they take the lifeנֶפֶשׁ
Transliteration: nep̄eš Pronunciation:neh’-fesh feminine noun Meaning: soul, self, life, creature, person, appetite, mind, living being, desire, emotion, passion For more info click here of the owner of it.

Complaint of wisdom

1:20 Wisdom sings out in the streets; it gives forth its voice in the squares* The wisdom of Gods teaching is not limited to the synagogue and study hall; it appears to people in the midst of human life and strivings (R’ Hirsch). – From the Artscroll English Tanach:
1:21 It cries out at at street corners
and speaks out at entrances to city gates: in the city it speaks its words,
1:22 How long, ya’ll simpletons, will ya’ll love foolishness?  and scorners desire mockery for them selves, and hate knowledge?
1:23 Return to my correction. See, I will pour out My spiritרוּחִי
Transliteration: rûḥî – Hebrew Noun: Common Both Singular Construct – Meaning: the wind, the breath, the mind, the spirit For more info click here to you, I will make my words known to you.
1:24 Because I have called, and ya’ll refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one listened;
1:25 But ya’ll have ignored all my counsel, and wouldn’t accept my correction:
1:26 I too will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when terror comes over you;
1:27 When your fear comes like a storm, and your destruction comes like a whirlwind; when trouble and distress come on you.
1:28 then will they call on Me, but I won’t answer; they will search for Me, but they won’t find Me:
1:29 Because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here:
1:30 They didn’t desire of my counsel: they despised all my correction.
1:31 So will they eat of the fruit of their own wayדַרְכָּם‎
Transliteration: ḏarkām – of their own way, of their own road, of their own path, of their own route, of their own distance, of their own journey, of their own manner For more info click here, and be satisfied with their own schemes.
1:32 Because the turning away of the simpleton will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them.
1:33 But whoever listens to Me will live securely, and will be undisturbed by fear of evilרָעָה‎
Transliteration: rāʿâ -Hebrew Noun: Common Feminine Singular Absolute – In the KJV is translated in the following manner: evil (442x), wickedness (59x), wicked (25x), mischief (21x), hurt (20x), bad (13x), trouble (10x), sore (9x), affliction (6x), ill (5x), adversity (4x), ill favored (3x), harm (3x), naught (3x), noisome (2x), grievous (2x), sad (2x), miscellaneous (34x) For more info click here.