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| 1:1 |
The proverbs of Solomon the 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 instruction in wise dealing, In righteousness and justice 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 |
That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; And that the man of understanding may attain unto sound counsels:
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| 1:6 |
To understand a proverb, and a figure, The words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
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| 1:7 |
The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge; [But] the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
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| 1:8 |
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother:
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| 1:9 |
For they shall be a chaplet of grace unto thy head, And chains about thy neck.
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| 1:10 |
My son, if sinners entice thee, Consent thou not.
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| 1:11 |
If they say, Come with us, Let us lay wait for blood; Let us lurk privily 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 |
Thou shalt cast thy lot among us; We will all have one purse:
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| 1:15 |
My son, walk not thou in the way with them; Refrain 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 is the net spread In the sight of any bird:
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| 1:18 |
And these lay wait for their own blood; They lurk privily for their own lives.
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| 1:19 |
So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; It taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
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| 1:20 |
Wisdom crieth aloud in the street; She uttereth her voice in the broad places;
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| 1:21 |
She crieth in the chief place of concourse; At the entrance of the gates, In the city, she uttereth her words:
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| 1:22 |
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And scoffers delight them in scoffing, And fools hate knowledge?
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| 1:23 |
Turn you at my reproof: Behold, I will pour out my spirit upon you; I will make known my words unto you.
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| 1:24 |
Because I have called, and ye have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man hath regarded;
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| 1:25 |
But ye have set at nought all my counsel, And would none of my reproof:
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| 1:26 |
I also will laugh in [the day of] your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
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| 1:27 |
When your fear cometh as a storm, And your calamity cometh on 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 diligently, but they shall not find me:
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| 1:29 |
For that 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 own way, And be filled with their own devices.
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| 1:32 |
For the backsliding of the simple shall slay them, And the careless ease of fools shall destroy them.
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| 1:33 |
But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell securely, And shall be quiet without fear of evil.
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