- 1. The Parables of Salomon the sonne of Dauid King of Israel,
- 2. To knowe wisdome, and instruction, to vnderstand ye wordes of knowledge,
- 3. To receiue instruction to do wisely, by iustice and iudgement and equitie,
- 4. To giue vnto the simple, sharpenesse of wit, and to the childe knowledge and discretion.
- 5. A wise man shall heare and increase in learning, and a man of vnderstanding shall attayne vnto wise counsels,
- 6. To vnderstand a parable, & the interpretation, the wordes of ye 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 thy fathers instruction, and forsake not thy mothers teaching.
- 9. For they shalbe a comely ornament vnto thine head, and as chaines for thy necke.
- 10. My sonne, if sinners doe intise thee, consent thou not.
- 11. If they say, Come with vs, we will lay waite for blood, and lie priuilie for the innocent without a cause:
- 12. We wil swallow them vp aliue like a graue euen whole, as those that goe downe into the pit:
- 13. We shall finde all precious riches, and fill our houses with spoyle:
- 14. Cast in thy lot among vs: we will all haue one purse:
- 15. My sonne, walke not thou in the way with them: refraine thy foote from their path.
- 16. For their feete runne to euill, & make haste to shed blood.
- 17. Certainely as without cause the net is spred before the eyes of all that hath wing:
- 18. So they lay waite for blood and lie priuily for their liues.
- 19. Such are the wayes of euery one that is greedy of gaine: he would take away the life of the owners thereof.
- 20. Wisdome cryeth without: she vttereth her voyce in the streetes.
- 21. She calleth in the hye streete, among the prease in the entrings of the gates, and vttereth her wordes in the citie, saying,
- 22. O ye foolish, howe long will ye loue foolishnes? and the scornefull take their pleasure in scorning, and the fooles hate knowledge?
- 23. (Turne you at my correction: loe, I will powre out my mind vnto you, and make you vnderstand my wordes)
- 24. Because I haue called, & ye refused: I haue stretched out mine hand, & none woulde regarde.
- 25. But ye haue despised all my counsell, and would none of my correction.
- 26. I will also laugh at your destruction, and mocke, when your feare commeth.
- 27. Whe your feare cometh like sudden desolation, & your destruction shall come like a whirle wind: whe affliction & anguish shal come vpo you,
- 28. Then shall they call vpon me, but I will not answere: they shall seeke me early, but they shall not finde me,
- 29. Because they hated knowledge, and did not chuse the feare of the Lord.
- 30. They would none of my counsell, but despised all my correction.
- 31. Therefore shal they eate of ye fruite of their owne way, and be filled with their owne deuises.
- 32. For ease slaieth the foolish, and the prosperitie of fooles destroyeth them.
- 33. But he that obeyeth me, shall dwell safely, and be quiet from feare of euill.
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