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