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1:1  The Proverbs of Solomon, son of David, King of Israel.
1:2  To know wisdom and instruction and to notice the words of intelligence;
1:3  To receive instruction and awe and righteousness and judgment and uprightness;
1:4  To give children cunning and to boys knowledge and intelligence.
1:5  A wise man will listen and will add to his wisdom and the intelligent will gain leadership
1:6  To perceive proverbs and parables and the words of the wise and their riddles.
1:7  The chief wisdom is the awe of Lord Jehovah, but the evil despise knowledge and instruction.
1:8  Hear, my son, the law of your father and do not forget the law of your mother.
1:9  For they are beauty to your head and a necklace for your neck.
1:10  My son if sinners entice you, do not consent,
1:11  And if they say to you “Come with us, let us lay wait for the innocent in depravity
1:12  And we will swallow him alive like Sheol, and one without blemish like those descending into the pit;
1:13  We will find all his wealth and his stuff and fill our houses with loot;
1:14  Cast your lot with us and each of us will have a money bag.”
1:15  My son, do not go in the way with them, but withhold your foot from their paths,
1:16  Because their feet run to evil and hasten to shed innocent blood.
1:17  It is by deceit that nets are spread for a bird.
1:18  And they lay wait for blood and hide themselves.
1:19  So are the ways of all who do evil and take the lives of their Masters.
1:20  Wisdom is praised in the market and raises her voice in the street.
1:21  She preaches in the chief streets and she speaks her words in the entrances of the city gates.
1:22  How long, children, will you love childishness, and you mockers desire mockery, and you fools hate knowledge?
1:23  If you turn to my reproof, I shall bring forth my Spirit to you, and I shall show you my word.
1:24  For I have cried, and you have not believed, and I have lifted my voice and you have not listened.
1:25  And you despise all my counsels and you were not pleased with my reproof.
1:26  I also shall laugh over your destruction and I shall rejoice when tumult and destruction suddenly comes upon you.
1:27  And your destruction will come like a hurricane, and when trouble and adversity comes against them,
1:28  Then they will call on me and I shall not answer them, and they will come early to my presence and they will not find me
1:29  Because they hated knowledge and they did not choose the worship of Lord Jehovah.
1:30  And they did not choose my counsel and they have rejected all my reproof.
1:31  And they will eat of the fruit of their ways and they will be filled with their counsels.
1:32  Because of this, the turning away of the children will kill them, and the error of feeble minds will destroy them.
1:33  And he who hears me will dwell in hope and will be quiet from the multitude of evils.