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| Proverbs 1: (ASV) |
| 1) The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel: |
| 2) To know wisdom and instruction; To discern the words of understanding; |
| 3) To receive instruction in wise dealing, In righteousness and justice and equity; |
| 4) To give prudence to the simple, To the young man knowledge and discretion: |
| 5) That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; And that the man of understanding may attain unto sound counsels: |
| 6) To understand a proverb, and a figure, The words of the wise, and their dark sayings. |
| 7) The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge; But the foolish 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 a chaplet 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 Sheol, 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) Thou shalt cast thy lot among us; We will 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 they make haste to shed blood. |
| 17) For in vain is the net spread In the sight of any bird: |
| 18) And these 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; It taketh away the life of the owners thereof. |
| 20) Wisdom crieth aloud in the street; She uttereth her voice in the broad places; |
| 21) She crieth in the chief place of concourse; At the entrance of the gates, In the city, she uttereth her words: |
| 22) How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And scoffers delight them in scoffing, And fools hate knowledge? |
| 23) Turn you at my reproof: Behold, I will pour out my spirit upon you; I will make known my words unto you. |
| 24) Because I have called, and ye have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man hath regarded; |
| 25) But ye have set at nought all my counsel, And would none of my reproof: |
| 26) I also will laugh in the day of your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; |
| 27) When your fear cometh as a storm, And your calamity cometh on as a whirlwind; When distress and anguish come upon you. |
| 28) Then will they call upon me, but I will not answer; They will seek me diligently, but they shall not find me: |
| 29) For that they hated knowledge, And did not choose the fear of Jehovah, |
| 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 backsliding of the simple shall slay them, And the careless ease of fools shall destroy them. |
| 33) But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell securely, And shall be quiet without fear of evil. |