The
proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of
Israel;
02 To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive
the words of understanding;
03 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice,
and judgment, and equity;
04 To give subtilty to the simple, to the young
man knowledge and discretion.
05 A wise man will hear, and will increase
learning; and a man of understanding shall attain
unto wise counsels:
06 To understand a proverb, and the
interpretation; the words of the wise, and their
dark sayings.
07 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of
knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and
instruction.
08 My son, hear the instruction of thy father,
and forsake not the law of thy mother:
09 For they shall be an ornament 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 the grave; 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; let us 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 make haste to
shed blood.
17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight
of any bird.
18 And they lay wait for their own blood; they
lurk privily for their own lives.
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19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of
gain; which taketh away the life of the owners
thereof.
20 Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice
in the streets:
21 She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in
the openings of the gates: in the city she
uttereth her words, saying,
22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love
simplicity? and the scorners delight in their
scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour
out my spirit unto you, I will make known my
words unto you.
24 Because I have called, and ye refused; I have
stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and
would none of my reproof:
26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will
mock when your fear cometh;
27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your
destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress
and anguish cometh upon you.
28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not
answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall
not find me:
29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not
choose the fear of the Lord:
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 turning away of the simple shall slay
them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy
them.
33 But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell
safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.
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