1 Mishlei Sh’lomo Ben Dovid, Melech Yisroel;

² To have da’as of chochmah and musar (discipline); to understand the words of binah;

³ To receive the musar of those with seichel, tzedek and mishpat, and meisharim (equity, uprightness);

⁴ To give subtlety to the simple, to the na’ar, da’as and discretion.

⁵ A chacham (wise person) will hear, and will increase learning, and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:

⁶ To understand a mashal (proverb), and the melitzah (enigma); the divrei chachamim, and their chidot (riddles).

⁷ The Yirat Hashem is the reshit da’as, but fools despise chochmah and musar.

⁸ Beni (my son), hear the musar Avicha, and forsake not the Torat Immecha.

⁹ For they shall be a garland of chen unto thy rosh, and a chain about thy neck.

¹⁰ Beni (my son), if chatt’aim (sinners) entice thee, consent thou not.

¹¹ If they say, Come with us, let us lie in wait for dahm, let us lurk secretly for the naki (innocent, harmless) chinnom (without cause);

¹² Let us swallow them up chayyim (alive) like She’ol; and whole, as those that go down into the bor (pit);

¹³ We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill bateinu (our houses) with plunder;

¹⁴ Throw in thy goral (lot) among us; let all of us have kis echad (one pouch, purse).

¹⁵ Beni (my son), walk not thou in the derech with them; refrain thy regel from their path;

¹⁶ For their raglayim run to rah, and make haste for shefach dahm (shedding of blood).

¹⁷ Surely in vain the reshet (net) is spread in the eyes of kol ba’al kanaf (all the birds, i.e., lit. master of [the] wing);

¹⁸ And they lie in wait for their own dahm; they lurk secretly for their own nafshot.

¹⁹ So are the ways of every one that is greedy for betza (ill-gotten gain); which taketh away the nefesh of the be’alim (owners) thereof.

²⁰ Chochmot crieth out in the street; she lifts up her voice in the rechovot (city squares);

²¹ She crieth out in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the she’arim (gates); in the Ir (city) she uttereth her words, saying,

²² Ad mosai, ye simple ones, will ye love being simpletons? And the scoffers delight in their mockery, and kesilim (fools) hate da’as?

²³ Turn you at my tokhechah (reproof); hinei, I will pour out my ruach unto you, I will make known my devarim unto you.

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

²⁵ But ye have disdained all my etza (counsel), and would have none of my tokhechah (reproof);

²⁶ I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your pachad (terror) cometh;

²⁷ When your pachad (terror) cometh like a storm, and your calamity cometh like a whirlwind; when tzarah (distress) and oppression cometh upon you.

²⁸ Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall look for me diligently, but they shall not find me;

²⁹ For that they hated da’as, and did not choose the Yirat Hashem;

³⁰ They would have none of my etza (counsel); they despised all my tokhechah (reproof).

³¹ Therefore shall they eat of the p’ri (fruit) of their own derech, and be filled with their own mo’atzot (schemes, devices).

³² For the waywardness of the simple shall slay them, and the complacent contentment of kesilim (fools) shall destroy them.

³³ But the one who payeth heed unto me [Chochmat Hashem, i.e., the Redemptive Word, not only Hashem’s creative agent (Ps 33:6; Prov 8:30; 30:4) but the one who comes with a healing mission according to Ps 107:20, though Moshiach has to die in the midst of his healing Mission to accomplish our healing from guilt and punitive dread-Isa 53:5] shall dwell safely, and shall be secure from pachad ra’ah (terror of evil).