PR-1:1  The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;

PR-1:2  To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of

understanding;

PR-1:3  To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and 
judgment, and

equity;

PR-1:4  To give subtlety to the simple, to the young man 
knowledge and

discretion.

PR-1:5  A wise [man] will hear, and will increase learning; and 
a man of

understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:

PR-1:6  To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the 
words of the

wise, and their dark sayings.

PR-1:7  The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of knowledge: 
[but] fools

despise wisdom and instruction.

PR-1:8  My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake 
not the law of

thy mother:

PR-1:9  For they [shall be] an ornament of grace unto thy head, 
and chains

about thy neck.

PR-1:10  My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.

PR-1:11  If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, 
let us lurk

privily for the innocent without cause:

PR-1:12  Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, 
as those that

go down into the pit:

PR-1:13  We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our 
houses with

spoil:

PR-1:14  Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:

PR-1:15  My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy 
foot from

their path:

PR-1:16  For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed 
blood.

PR-1:17  Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any 
bird.

PR-1:18  And they lay wait for their [own] blood; they lurk 
privily for their

[own] lives.

PR-1:19  So [are] the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; 
[which] taketh

away the life of the owners thereof.

PR-1:20  Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the 
streets:

PR-1:21  She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the 
openings of the

gates: in the city she uttereth her words, [saying],

PR-1:22  How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and 
the scorners

delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

PR-1:23  Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my 
spirit unto you, I

will make known my words unto you.

PR-1:24  Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched 
out my hand,

and no man regarded;

PR-1:25  But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would 
none of my

reproof:

PR-1:26  I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when 
your fear

cometh;

PR-1:27  When your fear cometh as desolation, and your 
destruction cometh as a

whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.

PR-1:28  Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; 
they shall seek

me early, but they shall not find me:

PR-1:29  For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the 
fear of the

LORD:

PR-1:30  They would none of my counsel: they despised all my 
reproof.

PR-1:31  Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, 
and be filled

with their own devices.

PR-1:32  For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and 
the

prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

PR-1:33  But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and 
shall be quiet

from fear of evil.



 

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