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Proverbs 1:1: Proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel: Proverbs 1:2: For knowing wisdom and instruction, For understanding sayings of intelligence, Proverbs 1:3: For receiving the instruction of wisdom, Righteousness, judgment, and uprightness, Proverbs 1:4: For giving to simple ones &#8212; prudence, To a youth &#8212; knowledge and discretion. Proverbs 1:5: (The wise doth hear and increaseth learning, And the intelligent doth obtain counsels.) Proverbs 1:6: For understanding a proverb and its sweetness, Words of the wise and their acute sayings. Proverbs 1:7: Fear of Jehovah is a beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and instruction fools have despised! Proverbs 1:8: Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother, Proverbs 1:9: For a graceful wreath are they to thy head, And chains to thy neck. Proverbs 1:10: My son, if sinners entice thee be not willing. Proverbs 1:11: If they say, 'Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause, Proverbs 1:12: We swallow them as Sheol &#8212; alive, And whole &#8212; as those going down to the pit, Proverbs 1:13: Every precious substance we find, We fill our houses with spoil, Proverbs 1:14: Thy lot thou dost cast among us, One purse is &#8212; to all of us.' Proverbs 1:15: My son! go not in the way with them, Withhold thy foot from their path, Proverbs 1:16: For their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed blood. Proverbs 1:17: Surely in vain is the net spread out before the eyes of any bird. Proverbs 1:18: And they for their own blood lay wait, They watch secretly for their own lives. Proverbs 1:19: So are the paths of every gainer of dishonest gain, The life of its owners it taketh. Proverbs 1:20: Wisdom in an out-place crieth aloud, In broad places she giveth forth her voice, Proverbs 1:21: At the head of the multitudes she calleth, In the openings of the gates, In the city her sayings she saith: Proverbs 1:22: 'Till when, ye simple, do ye love simplicity? And have scorners their scorning desired? And do fools hate knowledge? Proverbs 1:23: Turn back at my reproof, lo, I pour forth to you my spirit, I make known my words with you. Proverbs 1:24: Because I have called, and ye refuse, I stretched out my hand, and none is attending, Proverbs 1:25: And ye slight all my counsel, And my reproof ye have not desired. Proverbs 1:26: I also in your calamity do laugh, I deride when your fear cometh, Proverbs 1:27: When your fear cometh as destruction, And your calamity as a hurricane doth come, When on you come adversity and distress. Proverbs 1:28: Then they call me, and I do not answer, They seek me earnestly, and find me not. Proverbs 1:29: Because that they have hated knowledge, And the fear of Jehovah have not chosen. Proverbs 1:30: They have not consented to my counsel, They have despised all my reproof, Proverbs 1:31: And they eat of the fruit of their way, And from their own counsels they are filled. Proverbs 1:32: For the turning of the simple slayeth them, And the security of the foolish destroyeth them. Proverbs 1:33: And whoso is hearkening to me dwelleth confidently, And is quiet from fear of evil!'
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