- 1. Proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel:
- 2. to know wisdom and instruction; to discern the words of understanding;
- 3. to receive the instruction of wisdom, righteousness and judgment, and equity;
- 4. to give prudence to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
- 5. He that is wise will hear, and will increase learning; and the intelligent will gain wise counsels:
- 6. to understand a proverb and an allegory, the words of the wise and their enigmas.
- 7. The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge: fools despise wisdom and instruction.
- 8. Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the teaching of thy mother;
- 9. for they shall be a garland of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
- 10. My son, if sinners entice thee, consent not.
- 11. If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk secretly 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. cast in thy lot among us; we will all have one purse:
- 15. -- my son, walk not in the way with them, keep back thy foot from their path;
- 16. for their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.
- 17. For in vain the net is spread in the sight of anything which hath wings.
- 18. And these lay wait for their own blood; they lurk secretly for their own lives.
- 19. So are the paths of every one that is greedy of gain: it taketh away the life of its possessors.
- 20. Wisdom crieth without; she raiseth her voice in the broadways;
- 21. she calleth in the chief [place] of concourse, in the entry of the gates; in the city she uttereth her words:
- 22. How long, simple ones, will ye love simpleness, and scorners take pleasure in their scorning, and the foolish hate knowledge?
- 23. Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour forth my spirit unto you, I will make known to you my words.
- 24. Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one regarded;
- 25. and ye have rejected all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
- 26. I also will laugh in your calamity, I will mock when your fear cometh;
- 27. when your fear cometh as sudden destruction, and your calamity cometh 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 early, and shall not find me.
- 29. Because 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 way, and be filled with their own devices.
- 32. For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of the foolish shall cause them to perish.
- 33. But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be at rest from fear of evil.
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