Proverbs
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:
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