Category Archives: Mishlei (Pro)

1 The proverbs of Shlomo the son of David, king of Isra’el, 2 are for learning about wisdom and discipline; for understanding words expressing deep insight; 3 for gaining an intelligently disciplined life, doing what is right, just and fair; 4 for endowing with caution those who don’t think and the young person with knowledge […]

1 My son, if you will receive my words and store my commands inside you, 2 paying attention to wisdom inclining your mind toward understanding — 3 yes, if you will call for insight and raise your voice for discernment, 4 if you seek it as you would silver and search for it as for […]

1 My son, don’t forget my teaching, keep my commands in your heart; 2 for they will add to you many days, years of life and peace. 3 Do not let grace and truth leave you — bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. 4 Then you will win […]

1 Listen, children, to a father’s instruction; pay attention, in order to gain insight; 2 for I am giving you good advice; so don’t abandon my teaching. 3 For I too was once a child to my father; and my mother, too, thought of me as her special darling. 4 He too taught me; he […]

1 My son, pay attention to my wisdom; incline your ear to my understanding; 2 so that you will preserve discretion and your lips keep watch over knowledge. 3 For the lips of a woman who is a stranger drop honey, her mouth is smoother than oil; 4 but in the end she is as […]

1 My son, if you have put up security for your friend, if you committed yourself on behalf of another; 2 you have been snared by the words of your mouth, caught by the words of your own mouth. 3 Do this now, my son, and extricate yourself, since you put yourself in your friend’s […]

1 My son, keep my words, store up my commands with you. 2 Obey my commands, and live; guard my teaching like the pupil of your eye. 3 Bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart. 4 Say to wisdom, “You are my sister”; call understanding your kinswoman; 5 so […]

1 Wisdom is calling! Understanding is raising her voice! 2 On the heights along the road, where the paths meet, she is standing; 3 by the gates leading into the city, at the entrances, she cries aloud: 4 “People, I am calling you, raising my voice to all mankind. 5 You who don’t direct your […]

1 Wisdom has built herself a house; she has carved her seven pillars. 2 She has prepared her food, spiced her wine, and she has set her table. 3 She has sent out her young girls [with invitations]; she calls from the heights of the city, 4 “Whoever is unsure of himself, turn in here!” […]

1 The proverbs of Shlomo: A wise son is a joy to his father, but a foolish son is a grief to his mother. 2 No good comes from ill-gotten wealth, but righteousness rescues from death. 3 Adonaidoes not let the righteous go hungry, but he thwarts the craving of the wicked. 4 Idle hands […]