Proverbs 1
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| v | JPS1917 |
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| 1 | The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; |
| 2 | To know wisdom and instruction; To comprehend the words of understanding; |
| 3 | To receive the discipline of wisdom, Justice, and right, and equity; |
| 4 | To give prudence to the simple, To the young man knowledge and discretion; |
| 5 | That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning, And the man of understanding may attain unto wise counsels; |
| 6 | To understand a proverb, and a figure; The words of the wise, and their dark sayings. |
| 7 | The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; But the foolish despise wisdom and discipline. |
| 8 | Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And forsake not the teaching of thy mother; |
| 9 | For they shall be a chaplet 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 lie in wait for blood, Let us lurk 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, restrain 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 eyes of any bird; |
| 18 | And these lie in wait for their own blood, they lurk for their own lives. |
| 19 | So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; it taketh away the life of the owners thereof. |
| 20 | Wisdom crieth aloud in the streets, she uttereth her voice in the broad places; |
| 21 | She calleth at the head of the noisy streets, at the entrances of the gates, in the city, she uttereth her words: |
| 22 | ’How long, ye thoughtless, will ye love thoughtlessness? And how long will scorners delight them in 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 attended, |
| 25 | But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof; |
| 26 | I also, in your calamity, will laugh, I will mock when your dread cometh; |
| 27 | When your dread cometh as a storm, and your calamity cometh on as a whirlwind; When trouble and distress come upon you. |
| 28 | Then will they call me, but I will not answer, they will seek me earnestly, 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 waywardness of the thoughtless shall slay them, and the confidence of fools shall destroy them. |
| 33 | But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell securely, and shall be quiet without fear of evil.’ |
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