Bible, King James Version
Proverbs
Prov.1
[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 the instruction of wisdom, justice, and
judgment, and equity;
[4] To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man
knowledge and discretion.
[5] A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and
a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
[6] To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the
words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
[7] The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge:
but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
[8] My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and
forsake not the law of thy mother:
[9] 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.
[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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