Pro1:1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
Pro1:2 To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
Pro1:3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
Pro1:4 To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
Pro1:5 A wise [man] will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain to wise counsels:
Pro1:6 To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
Pro1:7 The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of knowledge: [but] fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Pro1:8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
Pro1:9 For they [shalt be] an ornament of grace to thy head, and chains about thy neck.
Pro1:10 My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
Pro1:11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
Pro1:12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
Pro1:13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
Pro1:14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
Pro1:15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
Pro1:16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
Pro1:17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
Pro1:18 And they lay wait for their [own] blood; they lurk privily for their [own] lives.
Pro1:19 So [are] the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; [who] taketh away the life of its owners.
Pro1:20 Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
Pro1:21 She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, [saying],
Pro1:22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
Pro1:23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit to you, I will make known to you my words.
Pro1:24 Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
Pro1:25 But ye have set at naught all my counsel, and rejected my reproof:
Pro1:26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
Pro1:27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
Pro1:28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
Pro1:29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
Pro1:30 They rejected my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
Pro1:31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
Pro1:32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
Pro1:33 But whoever hearkeneth to me shall dwell in safety, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.