PRO 1: 1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of
Israel;
PRO 1: 2 To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words
of understanding;
PRO 1: 3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and
judgment, and equity;
PRO 1: 4 To give subtlety to the simple, to the young man
knowledge and discretion.
PRO 1: 5 A wise [man] will hear, and will increase learning; and
a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
PRO 1: 6 To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the
words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
PRO 1: 7 The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of knowledge:
[but] fools despise wisdom and instruction.
PRO 1: 8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake
not the law of thy mother:
PRO 1: 9 For they [shall be] an ornament of grace unto thy head,
and chains about thy neck.
PRO 1: 10 My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
PRO 1: 11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood,
let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
PRO 1: 12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole,
as those that go down into the pit:
PRO 1: 13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill
our houses with spoil:
PRO 1: 14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
PRO 1: 15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain
thy foot from their path:
PRO 1: 16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed
blood.
PRO 1: 17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any
bird.
PRO 1: 18 And they lay wait for their [own] blood; they lurk
privily for their [ own] lives.
PRO 1: 19 So [are] the ways of every one that is greedy of gain;
[which] taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
PRO 1: 20 Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the
streets:
PRO 1: 21 She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the
openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words,
[saying] ,
PRO 1: 22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and
the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate
knowledge?
PRO 1: 23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my
spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
PRO 1: 24 Because I have called, and ye refused; I have
stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
PRO 1: 25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would
none of my reproof:
PRO 1: 26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when
your fear cometh;
PRO 1: 27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your
destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish
cometh upon you.
PRO 1: 28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer;
they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
PRO 1: 29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the
fear of the LORD:
PRO 1: 30 They would none of my counsel: they despised all my
reproof.
PRO 1: 31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way,
and be filled with their own devices.
PRO 1: 32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them,
and the
prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
PRO 1: 33 But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and
shall be quiet from fear of evil.