## Proverbs Chapter 1

###### Proverbs 1:1
[Proverbs 1:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/1:1)

מִ֭שְׁלֵי שְׁלֹמֹ֣ה בֶן־דָּוִ֑ד מֶ֝֗לֶךְ יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
The proverbs of Shelomo the son of David, king of Yisra᾽el;

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[These are] the analogues of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel [e.g., Torah is compared to a good woman; idolatry, to an adulteress.]


###### Proverbs 1:2
[Proverbs 1:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/1:2)

לָדַ֣עַת חׇכְמָ֣ה וּמוּסָ֑ר לְ֝הָבִ֗ין אִמְרֵ֥י בִינָֽה׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
to know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[He stated these analogues] to make known [(to men the importance of studying Torah, which is)] wisdom and mussar (reproof), to make understood words of understanding.


###### Proverbs 1:3
[Proverbs 1:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/1:3)

לָ֭קַחַת מוּסַ֣ר הַשְׂכֵּ֑ל צֶ֥דֶק וּ֝מִשְׁפָּ֗ט וּמֵשָׁרִֽים׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
to receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
To take [from them (the analogues)] wise instruction: charity, justice [(in accordance with the truth)], and justness [(compromise)].


###### Proverbs 1:4
[Proverbs 1:4](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/1:4)

לָתֵ֣ת לִפְתָאיִ֣ם עׇרְמָ֑ה לְ֝נַ֗עַר דַּ֣עַת וּמְזִמָּֽה׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
to give prudence to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
To give to the innocent, wisdom; to the youth, [(who has not yet learned anything)], knowledge and counsel.


###### Proverbs 1:5
[Proverbs 1:5](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/1:5)

יִשְׁמַ֣ע חָ֭כָם וְי֣וֹסֶף לֶ֑קַח וְ֝נָב֗וֹן תַּחְבֻּל֥וֹת יִקְנֶֽה׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain to wise counsels:

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
The wise one will hear [these analogues] and he will add to his learning, and the understanding one [(who understands one thing from another)] will [(in addition to what he hears)] acquire stratagems.


###### Proverbs 1:6
[Proverbs 1:6](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/1:6)

לְהָבִ֣ין מָ֭שָׁל וּמְלִיצָ֑ה דִּבְרֵ֥י חֲ֝כָמִ֗ים וְחִידֹתָֽם׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
to understand a proverb, and a figure; the words of the wise, and their riddles.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[They will take heart] to understand [both] the analogue and [even] the figure [e.g., (2:16) Beware of idolatry (the analogue); Beware of the strange woman (the figure)], the words of the wise [(the Torah expositors)] and their allusions.


###### Proverbs 1:7
[Proverbs 1:7](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/1:7)

יִרְאַ֣ת יְ֭הֹוָה רֵאשִׁ֣ית דָּ֑עַת חׇכְמָ֥ה וּ֝מוּסָ֗ר אֱוִילִ֥ים בָּֽזוּ׃{פ}

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[(The book proper begins now.)] The fear of the L-rd is the first [i.e., the tithe] of knowledge [("Put your fear before your knowledge")], for fools [(those who do not fear the L-rd)] spurn wisdom and mussar.


###### Proverbs 1:8
[Proverbs 1:8](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/1:8)

שְׁמַ֣ע בְּ֭נִי מוּסַ֣ר אָבִ֑יךָ וְאַל־תִּ֝טֹּ֗שׁ תּוֹרַ֥ת אִמֶּֽךָ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and do not forsake the Tora of thy mother:

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Hear, my son, the mussar of your Father [(what the L-rd gave to Moses, written and oral)], and do not forsake the Torah of your mother [(the congregation of Israel)] [("the Torah of your mother" - the words of the scribes, what they originated and added, making safeguards for the Torah)].


###### Proverbs 1:9
[Proverbs 1:9](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/1:9)

כִּ֤י**׀** לִוְיַ֤ת חֵ֓ן הֵ֬ם לְרֹאשֶׁ֑ךָ וַ֝עֲנָקִ֗ים לְגַרְגְּרֹתֶֽךָ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
for they shall be a graceful garland for thy head, and chains about thy neck.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
For they are a chaplet of grace to your head and a necklace to your throat.


###### Proverbs 1:10
[Proverbs 1:10](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/1:10)

בְּנִ֡י אִם־יְפַתּ֥וּךָ חַ֝טָּאִ֗ים אַל־תֹּבֵֽא׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
My son, if sinners entice thee, do not consent.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
My son, if sinners entice you, do not yield.


###### Proverbs 1:11
[Proverbs 1:11](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/1:11)

אִם־יֹאמְרוּ֮ לְכָ֢ה אִ֫תָּ֥נוּ נֶאֶרְבָ֥ה לְדָ֑ם נִצְפְּנָ֖ה לְנָקִ֣י חִנָּֽם׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
If they say, Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us lurk for the innocent without cause:

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
If they say: Come with us; let us lie in wait for blood. Let us lurk for the innocent one [to spill his blood] — without cause —


###### Proverbs 1:12
[Proverbs 1:12](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/1:12)

נִ֭בְלָעֵם כִּשְׁא֣וֹל חַיִּ֑ים וּ֝תְמִימִ֗ים כְּי֣וֹרְדֵי בֽוֹר׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
let us swallow them up alive like She᾽ol; and whole, like those who go down into the pit:

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Let us swallow them [(the innocent)] up alive, like Sheol [(which swallows the body entire)], and whole [i.e., at the height of their prosperity], as those who descend to the pit [i.e., let us kill them and inherit their wealth],


###### Proverbs 1:13
[Proverbs 1:13](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/1:13)

כׇּל־ה֣וֹן יָקָ֣ר נִמְצָ֑א נְמַלֵּ֖א בָתֵּ֣ינוּ שָׁלָֽל׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
we shall find all precious goods; we shall fill our houses with spoil:

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
All precious wealth is found [with them]; we will fill up our houses with spoil,


###### Proverbs 1:14
[Proverbs 1:14](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/1:14)

גּ֭וֹרָ֣לְךָ תַּפִּ֣יל בְּתוֹכֵ֑נוּ כִּ֥יס אֶ֝חָ֗ד יִהְיֶ֥ה לְכֻלָּֽנוּ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
throw in thy lot among us; we shall all have one purse:

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Cast your lot among us; let there be one pouch for all of us —


###### Proverbs 1:15
[Proverbs 1:15](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/1:15)

בְּנִ֗י אַל־תֵּלֵ֣ךְ בְּדֶ֣רֶךְ אִתָּ֑ם מְנַ֥ע רַ֝גְלְךָ֗ מִנְּתִיבָתָֽם׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
my son, do not walk in the way with them; restrain thy foot from their path:

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
My son, do not walk in the way with them; keep your feet from their path.


###### Proverbs 1:16
[Proverbs 1:16](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/1:16)

כִּ֣י רַ֭גְלֵיהֶם לָרַ֣ע יָר֑וּצוּ וִ֝ימַהֲר֗וּ לִשְׁפׇּךְ־דָּֽם׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
for their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
For their feet run to [their own] evil, and they [heedlessly] hasten to spill blood.


###### Proverbs 1:17
[Proverbs 1:17](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/1:17)

כִּֽי־חִ֭נָּם מְזֹרָ֣ה הָרָ֑שֶׁת בְּ֝עֵינֵ֗י כׇּל־בַּ֥עַל כָּנָֽף׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
For no heed is taken of the net which is spread in the sight of any bird.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
For [though] the net is spread [(with food morsels)] for naught [i.e., for no apparent reason] in the eyes of all winged creatures,


###### Proverbs 1:18
[Proverbs 1:18](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/1:18)

וְ֭הֵם לְדָמָ֣ם יֶאֱרֹ֑בוּ יִ֝צְפְּנ֗וּ לְנַפְשֹׁתָֽם׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
And they lie in wait for their blood; they lurk for their lives.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
They [(the hunters)] are lying in wait for their blood and lurking for their lives.


###### Proverbs 1:19
[Proverbs 1:19](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/1:19)

כֵּ֗ן אׇ֭רְחוֹת כׇּל־בֹּ֣צֵֽעַ בָּ֑צַע אֶת־נֶ֖פֶשׁ בְּעָלָ֣יו יִקָּֽח׃{פ}

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
So are the ways of everyone who is greedy of gain; it takes away the life of its owner.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
So, [(as with the birds)] are the ways of all committers of theft [(The "morsels" are tempting to them, and easily attainable, but, in the end,)] it [the theft] takes the life of its owner [i.e., the thief].


###### Proverbs 1:20
[Proverbs 1:20](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/1:20)

חׇ֭כְמוֹת בַּח֣וּץ תָּרֹ֑נָּה בָּ֝רְחֹב֗וֹת תִּתֵּ֥ן קוֹלָֽהּ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Wisdom cries aloud in the street; she utters her voice in the squares:

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
The wisdom [of Torah] sings in the thoroughfare [i.e., in the house of study]; in the expanses [i.e., in the places where Torah is "expanded upon,"] it lifts its voice.


###### Proverbs 1:21
[Proverbs 1:21](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/1:21)

בְּרֹ֥אשׁ הֹמִיּ֗וֹת תִּ֫קְרָ֥א בְּפִתְחֵ֖י שְׁעָרִ֥ים בָּעִ֗יר אֲמָרֶ֥יהָ תֹאמֵֽר׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
she cries in the chief place of concourse, at the entrances of the gates: in the city she utters her words, saying,

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
In the fore of [its] din, it calls out, at the entrances of the gates [(where the elders sit)]. It spreads its words throughout the city, [saying:]


###### Proverbs 1:22
[Proverbs 1:22](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/1:22)

עַד־מָתַ֣י׀פְּתָיִם֮ תְּֽאֵהֲב֫וּ־פֶ֥תִי וְלֵצִ֗ים לָ֭צוֹן חָמְד֣וּ לָהֶ֑ם וּ֝כְסִילִ֗ים יִשְׂנְאוּ־דָֽעַת׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
How long, you simple ones, will you love being simple? and how long, O scorners, will you delight in scoffing, and fools hate knowledge?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
How long, O simpletons, will you love deception, and scoffers lust mockery, and fools hate wisdom?


###### Proverbs 1:23
[Proverbs 1:23](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/1:23)

תָּשׁ֗וּבוּ לְֽת֫וֹכַחְתִּ֥י הִנֵּ֤ה אַבִּ֣יעָה לָכֶ֣ם רוּחִ֑י אוֹדִ֖יעָה דְבָרַ֣י אֶתְכֶֽם׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
turn at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit to you, I will make known to you my words.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Return to my reproof. Do I not speak my spirit to you and make known my words to you?


###### Proverbs 1:24
[Proverbs 1:24](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/1:24)

יַ֣עַן קָ֭רָאתִי וַתְּמָאֵ֑נוּ נָטִ֥יתִי יָ֝דִ֗י וְאֵ֣ין מַקְשִֽׁיב׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Because I have called, and you refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[(But)] because I have called and you have refused; because I have stretched forth my arm [(to signal you to turn to me)], and you have not listened,


###### Proverbs 1:25
[Proverbs 1:25](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/1:25)

וַתִּפְרְע֥וּ כׇל־עֲצָתִ֑י וְ֝תוֹכַחְתִּ֗י לֹ֣א אֲבִיתֶֽם׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
but you have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And you have voided all of my counsel [(whose purpose was to exalt you in the world)], and did not desire my reproof,


###### Proverbs 1:26
[Proverbs 1:26](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/1:26)

גַּם־אֲ֭נִי בְּאֵידְכֶ֣ם אֶשְׂחָ֑ק אֶ֝לְעַ֗ג בְּבֹ֣א פַחְדְּכֶֽם׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear comes upon you;

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
I, likewise, will laugh at your misfortune and make mock when your fear arrives.


###### Proverbs 1:27
[Proverbs 1:27](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/1:27)

בְּבֹ֤א (כשאוה) [כְשׁוֹאָ֨ה**׀**] פַּחְדְּכֶ֗ם וְֽ֭אֵידְכֶם כְּסוּפָ֣ה יֶאֱתֶ֑ה בְּבֹ֥א עֲ֝לֵיכֶ֗ם צָרָ֥ה וְצוּקָֽה׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
when your fear comes like a storm, and your calamity comes like a tempest; when distress and anguish come upon you.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
When your fear comes as a [sudden] cloud, and your misfortune, as a whirlwind; when affliction and oppression come upon you,


###### Proverbs 1:28
[Proverbs 1:28](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/1:28)

אָ֣ז יִ֭קְרָאֻנְנִי וְלֹ֣א אֶעֱנֶ֑ה יְ֝שַׁחֲרֻ֗נְנִי וְלֹ֣א יִמְצָאֻֽנְנִי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they will not find me:

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Then they will call me, and I will not answer; they will search for me, but they will not find me.


###### Proverbs 1:29
[Proverbs 1:29](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/1:29)

תַּ֭חַת כִּֽי־שָׂ֣נְאוּ דָ֑עַת וְיִרְאַ֥ת יְ֝הֹוָ֗ה לֹ֣א בָחָֽרוּ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
for they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord:

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Because they hated wisdom and did not choose to fear the L-rd.


###### Proverbs 1:30
[Proverbs 1:30](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/1:30)

לֹא־אָב֥וּ לַעֲצָתִ֑י נָ֝אֲצ֗וּ כׇּל־תּוֹכַחְתִּֽי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
they would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
They did not desire my counsel; they spurned all of my reproof.


###### Proverbs 1:31
[Proverbs 1:31](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/1:31)

וְֽ֭יֹאכְלוּ מִפְּרִ֣י דַרְכָּ֑ם וּֽמִמֹּעֲצֹ֖תֵיהֶ֣ם יִשְׂבָּֽעוּ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Therefore they shall eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
They will eat the fruits of their ways and will be sated with their counsels [(by afflictions in this world; and the principal will be guarded for them in Gehinnom)].


###### Proverbs 1:32
[Proverbs 1:32](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/1:32)

כִּ֤י מְשׁוּבַ֣ת פְּתָיִ֣ם תַּהַרְגֵ֑ם וְשַׁלְוַ֖ת כְּסִילִ֣ים תְּאַבְּדֵֽם׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the erring of fools shall destroy them.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
For the waywardness of the simpletons will slay them, and the smugness of the fools [(in seeing the prosperity of the wicked and following in their footsteps)] will cause them to go lost.


###### Proverbs 1:33
[Proverbs 1:33](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/1:33)

וְשֹׁמֵ֣עַֽ לִ֭י יִשְׁכׇּן־בֶּ֑טַח וְ֝שַׁאֲנַ֗ן מִפַּ֥חַד רָעָֽה׃{פ}

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
But he who listens to me shall dwell safely, and shall be at ease without fear of evil.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
But he who listens to me will rest secure [in this world], and in quiet [(in the world to come)] from the fright of evil [(the judgment of Gehinnom)].