Proverbs 1
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| 1 | The Prouerbes of Solomon the sonne of Dauid, King of Israel, |
| 2 | To knowe wisedome and instruction, to perceiue the words of vnderstanding, |
| 3 | To receiue the instruction of wisdome, iustice, and iudgement & equitie, |
| 4 | To giue subtiltie to the simple, to the yong man knowledge and discretion. |
| 5 | A wise man wil heare, and wil increase learning: and a man of vnderstanding shall attaine vnto wise counsels: |
| 6 | To vnderstand a prouerbe, and the interpretation; the wordes of the wise, and their darke sayings. |
| 7 | The feare of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fooles despise wisedome and instruction. |
| 8 | My sonne, heare the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother. |
| 9 | For they shall be an ornament of grace vnto thy head, and chaines about thy necke. |
| 10 | My sonne, if sinners entise thee, consent thou not. |
| 11 | If they say, Come with vs, let vs lay wait for blood, let vs lurke priuily for the innocent without cause: |
| 12 | Let vs swallow them vp aliue, as the graue, and whole, as those that goe downe into the pit: |
| 13 | Wee shall finde all precious substance, wee shall fill our houses with spoile: |
| 14 | Cast in thy lot among vs, let vs all haue one purse: |
| 15 | My sonne, walke not thou in the way with them; refraine thy foot from their path: |
| 16 | For their feete runne to euil, and make haste to shed blood. |
| 17 | Surely in vaine the net is spread in the sight of any bird. |
| 18 | And they lay wait for their owne blood, they lurke priuily for their owne liues. |
| 19 | So are the waies of euery one that is greedie of gaine: which taketh away the life of the owners thereof. |
| 20 | Wisedome crieth without, she vttereth her voice in the streets: |
| 21 | Shee crieth in the chiefe place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she vttereth her words, saying, |
| 22 | How long, ye simple ones, will ye loue simplicitie? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fooles hate knowledge? |
| 23 | Turne you at my reproofe: behold, I will powre out my spirit vnto you, I will make knowen my wordes vnto you. |
| 24 | Because I haue called, and yee refused, I haue stretched out my hand, and no man regarded: |
| 25 | But ye haue set at nought all my counsell, & would none of my reproofe: |
| 26 | I also will laugh at your calamitie, I wil mocke when your feare commeth. |
| 27 | When your feare commeth as desolation, and your destruction commeth as a whirlewinde; when distresse and anguish commeth vpon you: |
| 28 | Then shall they call vpon mee, but I will not answere; they shall seeke me early, but they shall not finde me: |
| 29 | For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the feare of the Lord. |
| 30 | They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproofe. |
| 31 | Therefore shall they eate of the fruite of their owne way, and be filled with their owne deuices. |
| 32 | For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fooles shall destroy them. |
| 33 | But who so hearkneth vnto mee, shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from feare of euill. |
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