| Chapter
1 |
| 1 | The
proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; |
| 2 | To know wisdom and instruction; to
perceive the words of understanding; |
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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.
Rom 3:15
Isa 59:7
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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: |
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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; |
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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. |
