- 1. The Prouerbes of Solomon the sonne of Dauid, King of Israel,
- 2. To knowe wisedome and instruction, to perceiue the words of vnderstanding,
- 3. To receiue the instruction of wisdome, iustice, and iudgement & equitie,
- 4. To giue subtiltie to the simple, to the yong man knowledge and discretion.
- 5. A wise man wil heare, and wil increase learning: and a man of vnderstanding shall attaine vnto wise counsels:
- 6. To vnderstand a prouerbe, and the interpretation; the wordes of the wise, and their darke sayings.
- 7. The feare of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fooles despise wisedome and instruction.
- 8. My sonne, heare the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother.
- 9. For they shall be an ornament of grace vnto thy head, and chaines about thy necke.
- 10. My sonne, if sinners entise thee, consent thou not.
- 11. If they say, Come with vs, let vs lay wait for blood, let vs lurke priuily for the innocent without cause:
- 12. Let vs swallow them vp aliue, as the graue, and whole, as those that goe downe into the pit:
- 13. Wee shall finde all precious substance, wee shall fill our houses with spoile:
- 14. Cast in thy lot among vs, let vs all haue one purse:
- 15. My sonne, walke not thou in the way with them; refraine thy foot from their path:
- 16. For their feete runne to euil, and make haste to shed blood.
- 17. Surely in vaine the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
- 18. And they lay wait for their owne blood, they lurke priuily for their owne liues.
- 19. So are the waies of euery one that is greedie of gaine: which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
- 20. Wisedome crieth without, she vttereth her voice in the streets:
- 21. Shee crieth in the chiefe place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she vttereth her words, saying,
- 22. How long, ye simple ones, will ye loue simplicitie? And the scorners delight in their scorning, and fooles hate knowledge?
- 23. Turne you at my reproofe: behold, I will powre out my spirit vnto you, I will make knowen my wordes vnto you.
- 24. Because I haue called, and yee refused, I haue stretched out my hand, and no man regarded:
- 25. But ye haue set at nought all my counsell, & would none of my reproofe:
- 26. I also will laugh at your calamitie, I wil mocke when your feare commeth.
- 27. When your feare commeth as desolation, and your destruction commeth as a whirlewinde; when distresse and anguish commeth vpon you:
- 28. Then shall they call vpon mee, but I will not answere; they shall seeke me early, but they shall not finde me:
- 29. For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the feare of the Lord.
- 30. They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproofe.
- 31. Therefore shall they eate of the fruite of their owne way, and be filled with their owne deuices.
- 32. For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fooles shall destroy them.
- 33. But who so hearkneth vnto mee, shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from feare of euill.
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