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.
1Salomo, Dawid ba, Israel hene, mmɛbuo;Under pastoral review
2Sɛ wobɛhunu nyansa ne nkyerɛkyerɛ; sɛ wobɛte nteaseɛ nsɛm ase;Under pastoral review
3Sɛ wobɛgye nyansa nkyerɛkyerɛ, tenenee, ne atemmuo, ne pɛpɛyɛ;Under pastoral review
4Sɛ wɔde anifire bɛma atetekwaa, na wɔde nimdeɛ ne adwene ama aberanteɛ.Under pastoral review
5Onyansafoɔ bɛtie, na ɔbɛkɔ so asua adeɛ; na nteaseɛ nipa bɛnya afotuo a nyansa wɔ mu:Under pastoral review
6Sɛ ɔbɛte ɛbɛ ase, ne ne nkyerɛaseɛ; nyansafoɔ nsɛm, ne wɔn kasanyansa.Under pastoral review
7AWURADE suro ne nimdeɛ ahyɛaseɛ: nanso nkwaseafoɔ bu nyansa ne nkyerɛkyerɛ animtiaa.Under pastoral review
8Me ba, tie w'agya nkyerɛkyerɛ, na nnyaa wo maame mmara:Under pastoral review
9Ɛfiri sɛ ɛbɛyɛ adom ahyehyɛdeɛ ama wo tiri, ne nkɔnsɔnkɔnsɔn wɔ wo kɔn mu.Under pastoral review
10Me ba, sɛ nnebɔneyɛfoɔ daadaa wo a, mpene so.Under pastoral review
11Sɛ wɔka sɛ, Bra yɛn nkyɛn, ma yɛntɛn mogya, ma yɛnkɔtɛ wɔn a wɔdi bem kwa:Under pastoral review
12Ma yɛnmene wɔn anikann sɛ damena; na wɔn mu nyinaa, sɛ wɔn a wɔsiane kɔ amena mu:Under pastoral review
13Yɛbɛnya ahonyadeɛ a ɛsom bo nyinaa, yɛde asadeɛ bɛhyɛ yɛn afie ma:Under pastoral review
14Fa wo kyɛfa bɛgu yɛn mu; ma yɛn nyinaa nnya sika kotokuo baako:Under pastoral review
15Me ba, wo ne wɔn nnante ɛkwan no so; twe wo nan firi wɔn kwan so:Under pastoral review
16Ɛfiri sɛ wɔn anan tu mmirika kɔ bɔne mu, na wɔyɛ ntɛm sɛ wɔrebɛhwie mogya agu.Under pastoral review
17Nokorɛ, wɔtrɛ asau no kwa wɔ anomaa biara ani so.Under pastoral review
18Na wɔtɛn wɔn ankasa mogya; wɔkɔtɛ wɔn ankasa nkwa.Under pastoral review
19Saa ara na obiara a ɔyɛ adifudepɛ akwan teɛ; deɛ ɛgye ɛwuranom nkwa.Under pastoral review
20Nyansa teateam wɔ abɔnten; ɔma ne nne so wɔ mmɔntene so:Under pastoral review
21Ɔteateam wɔ nnipadɔm atenaeɛ, wɔ apono ano: wɔ kuropɔn no mu na ɔka ne nsɛm, sɛ,Under pastoral review
22Mo atetekwaa, mobɛdɔ atetekwaasɛm akɔsi da bɛn? na afɛwdifoɔ ani agye wɔn fɛwdie ho, na nkwaseafoɔ atan nimdeɛ?Under pastoral review
23Monnane mo ho wɔ m'animka ho: hwɛ, mɛhwie me honhom agu mo so, mɛma moahunu me nsɛm.Under pastoral review
24Ɛfiri sɛ mafrɛ, na moapo; matene me nsa, na obiara anhwɛ;Under pastoral review
25Na mommuu m'afotuo nyinaa yɛ hwee, na moampɛ m'animka:Under pastoral review
26Me nso mɛsere mo amanehunu ho; mɛdi fɛw ɛberɛ a mo suro ba;Under pastoral review
27Ɛberɛ a mo suro ba sɛ amamfoyɛ, na mo ɔsɛeɛ ba sɛ ahum; ɛberɛ a ahohia ne awerɛhoɔ ba mo so.Under pastoral review
28Afei wɔbɛfrɛ me, nanso merennye so; wɔbɛhwehwɛ me anɔpatutuutu, nanso wɔrenhunu me:Under pastoral review
29Ɛfiri sɛ wɔtan nimdeɛ, na wɔampaw AWURADE suro:Under pastoral review
30Wɔampɛ m'afotuo: wɔbuu m'animka nyinaa animtiaa.Under pastoral review
31Ɛno enti wɔbɛdi wɔn ankasa akwan aba, na wɔn ankasa nhyehyɛeɛ bɛmee wɔn.Under pastoral review
32Ɛfiri sɛ atetekwaa nnaneɛ bɛkum wɔn, na nkwaseafoɔ yiedie bɛsɛe wɔn.Under pastoral review
33Nanso deɛ ɔtie me no bɛtena ase asomdwoeɛ mu, na ne ho bɛtɔ no a ɔrensuro bɔne.Under pastoral review