Pr 1 (King James)

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.

Pr 1 (Vulgate)

¹ [Parabolæ Salomonis, filii David, regis Israël,
² ad sciendam sapientiam et disciplinam ;
³ ad intelligenda verba prudentiæ, et suscipiendam eruditionem doctrinæ, justitiam, et judicium, et æquitatem :
⁴ ut detur parvulis astutia, adolescenti scientia et intellectus.
⁵ Audiens sapiens, sapientior erit, et intelligens gubernacula possidebit.
⁶ Animadvertet parabolam et interpretationem, verba sapientum et ænigmata eorum.
⁷ Timor Domini principium sapientiæ ; sapientiam atque doctrinam stulti despiciunt.]
⁸ [Audi, fili mi, disciplinam patris tui, et ne dimittas legem matris tuæ :
⁹ ut addatur gratia capiti tuo, et torques collo tuo.
¹⁰ Fili mi, si te lactaverint peccatores, ne acquiescas eis.
¹¹ Si dixerint : Veni nobiscum, insidiemur sanguini ; abscondamus tendiculas contra insontem frustra ;
¹² deglutiamus eum sicut infernus viventem, et integrum quasi descendentem in lacum ;
¹³ omnem pretiosam substantiam reperiemus ; implebimus domos nostras spoliis :
¹⁴ sortem mitte nobiscum, marsupium 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 jacitur rete ante oculos pennatorum.
¹⁸ Ipsi quoque contra sanguinem suum insidiantur, et moliuntur fraudes contra animas suas.
¹⁹ Sic semitæ omnis avari : animas possidentium rapiunt.]
²⁰ [Sapientia foris prædicat ; 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 quæ sibi sunt noxia cupient, et imprudentes odibunt scientiam ?
²³ convertimini ad correptionem meam. En proferam vobis spiritum meum, et ostendam vobis verba mea.
²⁴ Quia vocavi, et renuistis ; 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 id quod timebatis advenerit.
²⁷ Cum irruerit 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 acquieverint consilio meo, et detraxerint universæ correptioni meæ.
³¹ Comedent igitur fructus viæ suæ, suisque consiliis saturabuntur.
³² Aversio parvulorum interficiet eos, et prosperitas stultorum perdet illos.
³³ Qui autem me audierit, absque terrore requiescet, et abundantia perfruetur, timore malorum sublato.]