{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/ylt/proverbs/1","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-15T11:22:49.117Z"},"reference":{"translation":"YLT","book":"Proverbs","bookSlug":"proverbs","chapter":1,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":null,"nextChapter":2,"totalChapters":31,"totalVerses":33},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel:"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"For knowing wisdom and instruction, For understanding sayings of intelligence,"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"For receiving the instruction of wisdom, Righteousness, judgment, and uprightness,"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"For giving to simple ones — prudence, To a youth — knowledge and discretion."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"(The wise doth hear and increaseth learning, And the intelligent doth obtain counsels.)"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"For understanding a proverb and its sweetness, Words of the wise and their acute sayings."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Fear of Jehovah is a beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and instruction fools have despised!"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother,"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"For a graceful wreath are they to thy head, And chains to thy neck."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"My son, if sinners entice thee be not willing."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"If they say, 'Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause,"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"We swallow them as Sheol — alive, And whole — as those going down to the pit,"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Every precious substance we find, We fill our houses with spoil,"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Thy lot thou dost cast among us, One purse is — to all of us.'"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"My son! go not in the way with them, Withhold thy foot from their path,"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"For their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed blood."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Surely in vain is the net spread out before the eyes of any bird."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"And they for their own blood lay wait, They watch secretly for their own lives."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"So are the paths of every gainer of dishonest gain, The life of its owners it taketh."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Wisdom in an out-place crieth aloud, In broad places she giveth forth her voice,"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"At the head of the multitudes she calleth, In the openings of the gates, In the city her sayings she saith:"},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"'Till when, ye simple, do ye love simplicity? And have scorners their scorning desired? And do fools hate knowledge?"},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"Turn back at my reproof, lo, I pour forth to you my spirit, I make known my words with you."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"Because I have called, and ye refuse, I stretched out my hand, and none is attending,"},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"And ye slight all my counsel, And my reproof ye have not desired."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"I also in your calamity do laugh, I deride when your fear cometh,"},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"When your fear cometh as destruction, And your calamity as a hurricane doth come, When on you come adversity and distress."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"Then they call me, and I do not answer, They seek me earnestly, and find me not."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"Because that they have hated knowledge, And the fear of Jehovah have not chosen."},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"They have not consented to my counsel, They have despised all my reproof,"},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"And they eat of the fruit of their way, And from their own counsels they are filled."},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"For the turning of the simple slayeth them, And the security of the foolish destroyeth them."},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"And whoso is hearkening to me dwelleth confidently, And is quiet from fear of evil!'"}],"citation":{"inline":"Proverbs 1 (YLT)","markdown":"[Proverbs 1](https://primebible.com/ylt/proverbs/1)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* YLT. https://primebible.com/ylt/proverbs/1 (accessed 2026-06-15)."}}