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Proverbs 1 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:1 - The wise sayings of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:2 - To have knowledge of wise teaching; to be clear about the words of reason:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:3 - To be trained in the ways of wisdom, in righteousness and judging truly and straight behaviour:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:4 - To make the simple-minded sharp, and to give the young man knowledge, and serious purpose:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:5 - (The wise man, hearing, will get greater learning, and the acts of the man of good sense will be wisely guided:)

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:6 - To get the sense of wise sayings and secrets, and of the words of the wise and their dark sayings.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:7 - The fear of the Lord is the start of knowledge: but the foolish have no use for wisdom and teaching.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:8 - My son, give ear to the training of your father, and do not give up the teaching of your mother:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:9 - For they will be a crown of grace for your head, and chain-ornaments about your neck.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:10 - My son, if sinners would take you out of the right way, do not go with them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:11 - If they say, Come with us; let us make designs against the good, waiting secretly for the upright, without cause;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:12 - Let us overcome them living, like the underworld, and in their strength, as those who go down to death;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:13 - Goods of great price will be ours, our houses will be full of wealth;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:14 - Take your chance with us, and we will all have one money-bag:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:15 - My son, do not go with them; keep your feet from their ways:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:16 - For their feet are running after evil, and they are quick to take a man's life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:17 - Truly, to no purpose is the net stretched out before the eyes of the bird:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:18 - And they are secretly waiting for their blood and making ready destruction for themselves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:19 - Such is the fate of everyone who goes in search of profit; it takes away the life of its owners.

Wisdom Warns

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:20 - Wisdom is crying out in the street; her voice is loud in the open places;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:21 - Her words are sounding in the meeting-places, and in the doorways of the town:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:22 - How long, you simple ones, will foolish things be dear to you? and pride a delight to the haters of authority? how long will the foolish go on hating knowledge?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:23 - Be turned again by my sharp words: see, I will send the flow of my spirit on you, and make my words clear to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:24 - Because your ears were shut to my voice; no one gave attention to my out-stretched hand;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:25 - You were not controlled by my guiding, and would have nothing to do with my sharp words:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:26 - So in the day of your trouble I will be laughing; I will make sport of your fear;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:27 - When your fear comes on you like a storm, and your trouble like a rushing wind; when pain and sorrow come on you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:28 - Then I will give no answer to their cries; searching for me early, they will not see me:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:29 - For they were haters of knowledge, and did not give their hearts to the fear of the Lord:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:30 - They had no desire for my teaching, and my words of protest were as nothing to them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:31 - So the fruit of their way will be their food, and with the designs of their hearts they will be made full.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:32 - For the turning back of the simple from teaching will be the cause of their death, and the peace of the foolish will be their destruction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:33 - But whoever gives ear to me will take his rest safely, living in peace without fear of evil.
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The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

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Proverbs Chapter 1 — Additional Translations:

King James Version New King James Version New Living Translation New International Version English Standard Version Christian Standard Bible New American Standard Bible 2020 New American Standard Bible 1995 Legacy Standard Bible Amplified Bible New English Translation Revised Standard Version American Standard Version Young's Literal Translation Darby Translation Webster's Bible Hebrew Names Version Latin Vulgate Westminster Leningrad Codex Septuagint Smith Van Dyck Arabic Bible Open New Arabic Version Brenton's English Septuagint Reina Valera 1909 Reina-Valera 1960 Chinese Traditional Union Espanol Moderno Korean Holy Bible Louis Segond German Luther Russian Synodal Translation Sagradas Escrituras