- 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 discipline, reverence, righteousness, and justice, and equity;
- 4. To give subtlety to the simple, to the young men knowledge and discretion.
- 5. A wise man will listen and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain to leadership;
- 6. To understand proverbs and figures of speech; the words of the wise and their dark sayings.
- 7. ¶ The reverence of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; but fools despise knowledge and instruction.
- 8. Hear, my son, the ordinance of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother;
- 9. For they shall be an ornament of grace for your head and a necklace about your neck.
- 10. ¶ My son, if sinners entice you, consent not.
- 11. If they say to you, Come with us, let us lie in wait to shed blood, let us lie in wait for the innocent, wrongfully;
- 12. Let us swallow them up alive, as Sheol swallows the living, and whole as those who go down into the pit;
- 13. We shall find all his wealth and precious things, we shall fill our houses with spoil;
- 14. Cast in your lot with us; let us all have one purse;
- 15. My son, do not walk in the way with them; but refrain your foot from their path;
- 16. For their feet run to evil, they make haste to shed blood.
- 17. Surely in deceit is the net spread in the sight of any bird.
- 18. And they lie in wait, they hide themselves to shed blood.
- 19. Such are the ways of all who practice iniquity, who take away the life of their owners.
- 20. ¶ Wisdom is glorified in the market places; she raises her voice in the streets:
- 21. She preaches in the chief places of the concourse; in the openings of the gates of the city, she utters her words, saying,
- 22. How long, you simple ones, will you love childishness? And the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
- 23. If you will turn to my reproof, behold, I will pour out my spirit upon you; I will make known my words to you.
- 24. For I have called, and you refused; I have stretched out my hand, and you did not listen:
- 25. But you have despised all my counsels, and you were not pleased with my reproof.
- 26. I also will laugh at your calamity; I will rejoice when terror and sudden destruction come upon you;
- 27. When your destruction comes as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come upon you,
- 28. Then they shall call upon me, but I will not answer them; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me;
- 29. Because they hated knowledge, and did not choose the worship of the LORD.
- 30. They were not pleased with my counsels; they rejected all of my reproof.
- 31. Therefore they shall eat of the fruit of their own ways and be filled with their own devices.
- 32. For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the error of the weak-minded men shall destroy them.
- 33. But he who listens to me shall live in hope, and shall refrain from many evils.
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