1 Parabolae Salomonis filii David regis Israhel
2 ad sciendam sapientiam et disciplinam
3 ad intellegenda verba prudentiae
et suscipiendam eruditionem doctrinae
iustitiam et iudicium et aequitatem
4 ut detur parvulis astutia adulescenti scientia et intellectus
5 audiens sapiens sapientior erit
et intellegens gubernacula possidebit
6 animadvertet parabolam et interpretationem
verba sapientium et enigmata eorum
7 timor Domini principium scientiae
sapientiam atque doctrinam stulti despiciunt
8 audi fili mi disciplinam patris tui et ne dimittas legem matris tuae
9 ut addatur gratia capiti tuo et torques collo tuo
10 fili mi si te lactaverint peccatores ne adquiescas
11 si dixerint veni nobiscum insidiemur sanguini
abscondamus tendiculas contra insontem frustra
12 degluttiamus eum sicut infernus viventem
et integrum quasi descendentem in lacum
13 omnem pretiosam substantiam repperiemus
implebimus domos nostras spoliis
14 sortem mitte nobiscum marsuppium unum sit omnium nostrum
15 fili mi ne ambules cum eis prohibe pedem tuum a semitis eorum
16 pedes enim illorum ad malum currunt
et festinant ut effundant sanguinem
17 frustra autem iacitur rete ante oculos pinnatorum
18 ipsique contra sanguinem suum insidiantur
et moliuntur fraudes contra animas suas
19 sic semitae omnis avari animas possidentium rapiunt
20 sapientia foris praedicat in plateis dat vocem suam
21 in capite turbarum clamitat
in foribus portarum urbis profert verba sua dicens
22 usquequo parvuli diligitis infantiam
et stulti ea quae sibi sunt noxia cupiunt
et inprudentes odibunt scientiam
23 convertimini ad correptionem meam
en proferam vobis spiritum meum et ostendam verba mea
24 quia vocavi et rennuistis
extendi manum meam et non fuit qui aspiceret
25 despexistis omne consilium meum et increpationes meas neglexistis
26 ego quoque in interitu vestro ridebo
et subsannabo cum vobis quod timebatis advenerit
27 cum inruerit repentina calamitas
et interitus quasi tempestas ingruerit
quando venerit super vos tribulatio et angustia
28 tunc invocabunt me et non exaudiam
mane consurgent et non invenient me
29 eo quod exosam habuerint disciplinam
et timorem Domini non susceperint
30 nec adquieverint consilio meo
et detraxerint universae correptioni meae
31 comedent igitur fructus viae suae suisque consiliis saturabuntur
32 aversio parvulorum interficiet eos
et prosperitas stultorum perdet illos
33 qui autem me audierit absque terrore requiescet
et abundantia perfruetur malorum timore sublato
1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; 2 To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding; 3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity; 4 To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion. 5 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels: 6 To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
7 ¶ The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction. 8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: 9 For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
10 ¶ My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. 11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: 12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: 13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil: 14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse: 15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path: 16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. 17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. 18 And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives. 19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
20 ¶ Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: 21 She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying , 22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? 23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
24 ¶ Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; 25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: 26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; 27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. 28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: 29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD: 30 They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof. 31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. 32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. 33 But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.