| 章 |
| 1:1 |
Proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel:
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| 1:2 |
to know wisdom and instruction; to discern the words of understanding;
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| 1:3 |
to receive the instruction of wisdom, righteousness and judgment, and equity;
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| 1:4 |
to give prudence to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
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| 1:5 |
He that is wise will hear, and will increase learning; and the intelligent will gain wise counsels:
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| 1:6 |
to understand a proverb and an allegory, the words of the wise and their enigmas.
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| 1:7 |
The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge: fools despise wisdom and instruction.
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| 1:8 |
Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the teaching of thy mother;
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| 1:9 |
for they shall be a garland of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
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| 1:10 |
My son, if sinners entice thee, consent not.
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| 1:11 |
If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;
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| 1:12 |
let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, and whole, as those that go down into the pit;
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| 1:13 |
we shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
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| 1:14 |
cast in thy lot among us; we will all have one purse:
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| 1:15 |
-- my son, walk not in the way with them, keep back thy foot from their path;
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| 1:16 |
for their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.
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| 1:17 |
For in vain the net is spread in the sight of anything which hath wings.
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| 1:18 |
And these lay wait for their own blood; they lurk secretly for their own lives.
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| 1:19 |
So are the paths of every one that is greedy of gain: it taketh away the life of its possessors.
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| 1:20 |
Wisdom crieth without; she raiseth her voice in the broadways;
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| 1:21 |
she calleth in the chief [place] of concourse, in the entry of the gates; in the city she uttereth her words:
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| 1:22 |
How long, simple ones, will ye love simpleness, and scorners take pleasure in their scorning, and the foolish hate knowledge?
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| 1:23 |
Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour forth my spirit unto you, I will make known to you my words.
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| 1:24 |
Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one regarded;
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| 1:25 |
and ye have rejected all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
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| 1:26 |
I also will laugh in your calamity, I will mock when your fear cometh;
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| 1:27 |
when your fear cometh as sudden destruction, and your calamity cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come upon you:
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| 1:28 |
-- then will they call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me early, and shall not find me.
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| 1:29 |
Because they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of Jehovah;
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| 1:30 |
they would none of my counsel, they despised all my reproof:
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| 1:31 |
therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their way, and be filled with their own devices.
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| 1:32 |
For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of the foolish shall cause them to perish.
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| 1:33 |
But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be at rest from fear of evil.
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